TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riskin,Jessica
TI  - Science in the age of sensibility: the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment 
AV  - Q127.F8 R57 2002eb
U1  - 509.44/09/033 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Science
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Sensitivity (Personality trait)
KW  - Empiricism
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Wetenschapsbeoefening
KW  - gtt
KW  - Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
KW  - Aufklärung
KW  - swd
KW  - Empirie
KW  - Sensibilität
KW  - Wissenschaft
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index; Introduction : sensibility and enlightenment science -- The blind and the mathematically inclined -- Poor Richard's Leyden jar -- From electricity to economy -- The lawyer and the lightning rod -- The mesmerism investigation and the crisis of sensibilist science -- Languages of science and revolution -- Conclusion : the legacy of the sentimental empiricists
N2  - Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Fr
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