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| Autore principale: | Sahlins, Peter.
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| Titolo: | 1668 : the year of the animal in France / Peter Sahlins. |
| Pubblicazione: | New York : Zone books, 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 491 p., [8] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: Introduction: The wondrous year of the animal. Pt. 1. The Royal Menageries and the civilizing process: 1. Precious beasts: animals and absolutism in the Early Reign of Louis XIV 2. Civilizing animals: early literary accounts of the Royal Menagerie. Pt. 2. The visual afterlives of animals: 3. A woven zoo: Pieter Boel and the royal tapestries of the King 4. The anatomy of natural history: Claude Perrault and the animals project 5. Animal faces: Charles Le Brun and the physiognomy of the passions. Pt. 3. In the shadow of Descartes: 6. Beast in the blood: the first xenotransfusion experiments in France (1667-1668) 7. Resisting Descartes: three chamaleons between science and literature 8. Aesop revisited: the Royal Labyrinth of Versailles and the fable of absolutism. Conclusion: Rebecca's camels and Racine's dog. A partial chronology of the year of the animal (1661-1669). Acknowledgments. Notes. Works cited. Illustration credits. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781935408994 |
| Discipline: | Zoologia--Studi specifici. Politica e scienza--Studi. Arti figurative--Studi. |
| Persone: | Louis XIV, re di Francia, 1638-1715. Descartes, René, 1596-1650--Scienze della vita. |
| Luoghi: | Francia. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
| Collocazione: | LS 20951 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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