"Une fenêtre sur la ville": Gazing practices in pre-revolutionary Paris

"Une fenêtre sur la ville": Gazing practices in pre-revolutionary Paris

This article aims to show the relationship between the scientific discoveries of the XVIII century, especially optics and microbiology, and the rise of the so called “urbanistic literature” at the end of the century. Thanks to the instruments of cultural history, we could find lexical traces of this...

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Main Author: David Matteini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Cagliari 2018-12-01
Series:Between
Subjects:
Compalit
lumières
schermi
Rétif
Bretonne
Mercier
Rivoluzione francese
Duquesnoy
letteratura
urbanistica
parigi
fenêtre
microscopio
Online Access:http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/3346
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Summary:This article aims to show the relationship between the scientific discoveries of the XVIII century, especially optics and microbiology, and the rise of the so called “urbanistic literature” at the end of the century. Thanks to the instruments of cultural history, we could find lexical traces of this new realistic approach to the analysis of natural events in some important texts of the period. The way in which these writers described the reality is very important for historians and intellectuals, posing new problems about the history of French Revolution.
ISSN:2039-6597

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