The Race Makers by Andrew Curran: Tackling the Enlightenment’s questionable legacy

These moves, by both institutions and citizens, are part of a relatively recent global reckoning with the dark side of the ...
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Science and the visual image in the enlightenment / edited by William R. Shea

Domesticating science in the eighteenth century / John Heilbron -- Joseph Wright of Derby -- art, science and the validity of artistic language / Werner Busch -- The rhetoric of experiments and ...
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The Enlightenment Vision: Science, Reason, and the Promise of a Better Future

Jordan, a former NASA physicist and current president of the pioneering Institute for Science and Human Values, makes a scattered collection of arguments on the goals of the Enlightenment and ...
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Artisanal enlightenment : science and the mechanical arts in old regime France / Paola Bertucci

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: savants, artisans, artistes. Part 1 The natural history of the arts : Lost knowledge and the history of the arts -- Réaumur and the science of the arts. Part 2 The ...