Sciences Curiosit S La Cour De Versailles
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Sciences Curiosit S La Cour De Versailles 2010 2011
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Author : Encyclopaedia Universalis,
language : fr
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Universalis
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Sciences Curiosit S La Cour De Versailles 2010 2011 written by Encyclopaedia Universalis, and has been published by Encyclopaedia Universalis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Art categories.
Les sciences ont bien été présentes à la cour de Versailles. Déterminer si les rois et leur entourage les considéraient comme de véritables disciplines intellectuelles, ou comme de simples raretés divertissantes et singulières, tel était l'objectif de l'exposition ... À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis met la connaissance à la portée de tous. Écrite par plus de 7 400 auteurs spécialistes et riche de près de 30 000 médias (vidéos, photos, cartes, dessins...), l’Encyclopaedia Universalis est la plus fiable collection de référence disponible en français. Elle aborde tous les domaines du savoir.
Sciences Curiosit S La Cour De Versailles
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Author : Béatrix Saule
language : fr
Publisher: RMN
Release Date : 2010
Sciences Curiosit S La Cour De Versailles written by Béatrix Saule and has been published by RMN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with France categories.
La 4e de couverture indique : "Versailles... Ce nom évoque les intrigues, les chasses, les fêtes, et surtout l'art, omniprésent. Mais Versailles, lieu de sciences ? L'idée paraît incongrue. Pourtant comment imaginer qu'au temps du centralisme politique, après que Colbert, fondant les académies, eut donné à la France une forme d'organisation intellectuelle, Versailles -où tout se décidait - ne fût pas partie prenante ? Pas plus qu'aujourd'hui, le pouvoir ne pouvait négliger les enjeux de la recherche scientifique. Bien des savants, parmi les plus renommés, fréquentaient la cour en tant que précepteurs des princes ou officiers de santé. D'autres venaient à versailles pour une démonstration devant le roi, consécration suprême, équivalente à un prix Nobel. Dans un mouvement inverse, de grands seigneurs éclairés siégeaient à l'Académie des sciences. Aussi, même au temps des Lumières, la séparation entre milieux académiques et milieux de cour ne paraît pas avoir été si étanche... A sa création, le chantier de Versailles, par son ampleur sans précédent, souleva des problèmes que les savoir-faire traditionnels ne pouvaient résoudre : les astronomes furent mis à contribution pour y appliquer leurs connaissances. En retour, Versailles devint un terrain d'expérimentations pour les savants, offrant des ressources pour la recherche : des animaux de la Ménagerie pour les dissections, des serres immenses pour l'acclimatation de plantes nouvelles et leur classification, des terrains pour les expériences agronomiques... L'enseignement des princes suscita l'invention des premiers instruments pédagogiques et, pour la pratique personnelle des souverains, celle d'outils remarquables à la pointe de la recherche !"
The Institutionalization Of Science In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Mordechai Feingold
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-11-26
The Institutionalization Of Science In Early Modern Europe written by Mordechai Feingold and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe, from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal.
The Demonstration Society
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Author : Claude Rosental
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Demonstration Society written by Claude Rosental and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Political Science categories.
Today, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and exchange. YouTube demos of makeup products by famous influencers, demonstrations of strength during street protests, demonstrations of military might in North Korea: public demonstrations are omnipresent in social life. Yet they are often perceived as isolated events, unworthy of systematic examination. In The Demonstration Society, Claude Rosental explores the underlying dynamics of what he calls a “demonstration society.” He shows how, both in today’s world and historically, public demonstrations constitute not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but fundamental forms of interaction and exchange, and, in some cases, attempts to lead the world. Rosental compares demos with other forms of public demonstrations, drawing out both their peculiarities and common features. He analyzes the processes through which demonstrations are conceived and carried out, as well as the skills of their producers. He also compares contemporary demos with historical demonstrations including theaters of machines in the Renaissance, public demonstrations of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, and demonstrations of the magic lantern in the nineteenth century. Above and beyond the entertainment they sometimes provide, demonstrations are experienced as intense moments that broadly involve alliances, material and symbolic goods, and, more generally, the future of individuals and collectives. Rosental elucidates the many ways in which we live today, as in the past, in a society of demonstration.
Occasions Of State
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Author : J.R. Mulryne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-07
Occasions Of State written by J.R. Mulryne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with History categories.
This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation’s PALATIUM project. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, a Europe-wide group of early-career and experienced academics provides a unique account of spectacular occasions of state which influenced the political, social and cultural lives of contemporary societies. International pan-European turbulence associated with post-Reformation religious conflict supplies the context within which the book explores how the period’s rulers and élite families competed for power – in a forecast of today’s divided world.
Shapely Bodies
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Author : Christine A. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-16
Shapely Bodies written by Christine A. Jones and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-16 with Art categories.
Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France constructs the first cultural history of porcelain making in France. It takes its title from two types of “bodies” treated in this study: the craft of porcelain making shaped clods of earth into a clay body to produce high-end commodities and the French elite shaped human bodies into social subjects with the help of makeup, stylish patterns, and accessories. These practices crossed paths in the work of artisans, whose luxury objects reflected and also influenced the curves of fashion in the eighteenth century. French artisans began trials to reproduce fine Chinese porcelain in the 1660s. The challenge proved impossible until they found an essential ingredient, kaolin, in French soil in the 1760s. Shapely Bodies differs from other studies of French porcelain in that it does not begin in the 1760s at the Sèvres manufactory when it became technically possible to produce fine porcelain in France, but instead ends there. Without the secret of Chinese porcelain, artisans in France turned to radical forms of experimentation. Over the first half of the eighteenth century, they invented artificial alternatives to Chinese porcelain, decorated them with French style, and, with equal determination, shaped an identity for their new trade that distanced it from traditional guild-crafts and aligned it with scientific invention. The back story of porcelain making before kaolin provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of artisanal innovation and cultural mythmaking. To write artificial porcelain into a history of “real” porcelain dominated by China, Japan, and Meissen in Saxony, French porcelainiers learned to describe their new commodity in language that tapped into national pride and the mythic power of French savoir faire. Artificial porcelain cut such a fashionable image that by the mid-eighteenth century, Louis XV appropriated it for the glory of the crown. When the monarchy ended, revolutionaries reclaimed French porcelain, the fruit of a century of artisanal labor, for the Republic. Tracking how the porcelain arts were depicted in documents and visual arts during one hundred years of experimentation, Shapely Bodies reveals the politics behind the making of French porcelain’s image. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
1668
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Author : Peter Sahlins
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-10-13
1668 written by Peter Sahlins and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-13 with Art categories.
When animals and their symbolic representations—in the Royal Menagerie, in art, in medicine, in philosophy—helped transform the French state and culture. Peter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France—what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism toward more modern expressions of classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes's animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 in which his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668 explores and reproduces the king's animal collections—in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats—within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the transfusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the nonhuman and human agents of 1668—panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers—in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.
A General History Of Horology
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Author : Anthony Turner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-28
A General History Of Horology written by Anthony Turner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamental, new and original research.
Visitors To Versailles
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Author : Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2018-04-16
Visitors To Versailles written by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-16 with Art categories.
What was it like to visit one of the most magnificent courts of Europe? Based on a wealth of contemporary documents and surviving works of art, this lavish book explores the experiences of those who swarmed the palace and grounds of Versailles when it was the seat of the French monarchy. Engaging essays describe methods of transportation, the elaborate codes of dress and etiquette, precious diplomatic gifts, royal audiences, and tours of the palace and gardens. Also presented are the many types of visitors and guests who eagerly made their way to this center of power and culture, including day-trippers and Grand Tourists, European diplomats, overseas ambassadors, incognito travelers, and Americans. Through paintings and portraits, furniture, costumes and uniforms, arms and armor, guidebooks, and other works of art, Visitors to Versailles illuminates what travelers encountered at court and what impressions, gifts, and souvenirs they took home with them. In bringing to life their experiences, this sumptuously illustrated volume reminds us why Versailles has enchanted generations of visitors from the ancien régime to the present day.
King Of The World
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Author : Philip Mansel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-07-11
King Of The World written by Philip Mansel and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019 'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversation, especially with women: the power of women in Louis's life and reign is a particular theme of this book. Louis was obsessed by the details of government but the cost of building palaces and waging continuous wars devastated the country's finances and helped set it on the path to revolution. Nevertheless, by his death, he had helped make his grandson king of Spain, where his descendants still reign, and France had taken essentially the shape it has today. King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure in English. It draws on all the latest research to paint a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomises the idea of le grand monarque.