Early Modern Fire : : Science, Technology, and the Urban Space / / edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi and Marco Storni.
Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technol...
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| Superior document: | Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2025. ©2025 |
| Year of Publication: | 2025 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Notes on the Editors
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction: the Early Modern Fire
- Part 1 Fire in Early Modern Science
- Chapter 1 Purity, Purification, and Fire in the Seventeenth-Century Chymical Texts of Nicaise Le Febvre and Michael Sendivogius
- Chapter 2 'Atoms of Fire': Galileo's Unachieved Theory of Heat and the Beginnings of Thermometry (c.1603-1638)
- Chapter 3 Without a Thermometer: the Technical Knowledge of Heat in the Early Modern Age
- Chapter 4 Working with Fire: Remedy Making from the Shop to the Garden in the Apothecaries' Guild (Eighteenth Century, Paris)
- Part 2 Early Modern Fire Technologies
- Chapter 5 The Kitchen Fire (Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century)
- Chapter 6 Fire Mechanics: Inventors and Promoters of Heating Systems (Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century)
- Chapter 7 'The Manner of Conducting Fire': Firing Architectural Terracotta in the Modern Era, between Know-How, Wood Shortage, and Innovations
- Chapter 8 John Smeaton's Fire Engine Trials
- Part 3 Fire in the Urban Space
- Chapter 9 The Outbreak of Fire: Inventions, Materials, and Combustion Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 10 What Firefighting Tells Us about Eighteenth-Century Urban Police
- Chapter 11 Organising the Chaos: Firefighting in Upper Lusatia in the Early Modern Period
- Chapter 12 Spectacle, Enthusiasm, Objectivity - Managing Fire as an Emoterial
- Chapter 13 Conclusion: the Technicity of Fire in Modern Europe - a Historiographical Crossroads
- Index Nominum
- Back Cover.