Calvet's web : Enlightenment and the republic of letters in eighteenth-century France / L.W.B. Brockliss.
Edizione:
Repr
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2007.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 471 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. List of figures. List of map. List of tables. List of abbreviations. Biographical note. A note on terms. Currency note. Introduction: The republic of letters and Enlightenment. Pt. 1. Esprit Calvet: 1. The life 2. The man 3. Riches and benevolence. Pt. 2. The intellectual milieu: 1. The circle 2. The mini-republic 3. Letter - writing 4. Portrait of a republican 5. Women and the republic 6. Maintaining the web. Pt. 3. The physician: 1. Medicine in Avignon 2. The professor 3. The researcher and reformer 4. The practitioner 5. The patron. Pt. 4. The antiquarian: 1. Coins 2. Antiquities and antiques 3. Inscriptions 4. The scholar. Pt. 5. The natural historian: 1. The collection 2. Collecting 3. The naturalist 4. The cosmologist. Pt. 6. The bibliophile: 1. The library 2. Building a library 3. Sharing books 4. Publishing books. Pt. 7. The revolutionary climacteric: 1. The web and the ancien regime 2. The web and the French revolution 3. Counting the cost 4. The nationalization ofthe republic. Pt. 8. Conclusion: Enlightenment and the republic of letters. Bibliography. Index
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