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Author Coppola, Al, author.

Title The theater of experiment : staging natural philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain / Al Coppola.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- The spectacle of experiment and the politics of virtuoso satire in the 1670s -- Retraining the virtuoso's gaze: The emperor of the moon and the Spectacles of science and politics -- Physiology, commerce and comedy: Three hours after marriage and A bold stroke for a wife -- Harlequin Newton: Faustus pantomimes and public science in the 1720s -- Modest witnesses and eager spectators: engendering enlightenment science -- Epilogue: rehearsing spectacle.
Summary The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.
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Subject Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Theater.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Science in literature.
Science in literature.
English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism.
English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English drama.
Satire, English -- History and criticism.
Satire, English.
Literature and science -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Literature and science.
England.
Chronological Term 1660-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Coppola, Al. Theater of experiment. New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780190269715 (DLC) 2016002200 (OCoLC)936687353
ISBN 9780190269722 (electronic book)
0190269723 (electronic book)
9780190269739 (electronic book)
0190269731 (electronic book)
9780190269715 (cloth)
9780190627263 (epub)

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