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100	1		_aBernasconi, Gianenrico. _965811
245	1	0	_aEarly Modern Fire : _bScience, Technology, and the Urban Space.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2024.
264		4	_c©2025.
300			_a1 online resource (380 pages)
336			_aText _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aComputermedien _bc _2rdamedia
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490	1		_aIntersections Series ; _vv.95
500			_aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505	0		_aFront 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.
520			_aEarly Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe. Analysing case studies from alchemy to fireworks, this volume shows the centrality of fire management to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society.
655			_aFernzugriff _9230
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aStorni, Marco. _925222
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBernasconi, Gianenrico _tEarly Modern Fire _dBoston : BRILL,c2024 _z9789004521759
830		0	_aIntersections Series _964663
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