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100 1  Riskin, Jessica.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2002017911 
245 10 Science in the age of sensibility :|bthe sentimental 
       empiricists of the French enlightenment /|cJessica Riskin.
264  1 Chicago :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,|c2002. 
300    1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) :|billustrations 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-321) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction : sensibility and enlightenment science -- 
       The blind and the mathematically inclined -- Poor 
       Richard's Leyden jar -- From electricity to economy -- The
       lawyer and the lightning rod -- The mesmerism 
       investigation and the crisis of sensibilist science -- 
       Languages of science and revolution -- Conclusion : the 
       legacy of the sentimental empiricists. 
520    Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of 
       facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French 
       Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with 
       sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism,"
       natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of 
       experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental 
       empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, 
       practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the 
       study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and 
       moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the
       first school for the blind; how Benjamin Fr. 
588 0  Print version record. 
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aRiskin, Jessica.|tScience in the age of 
       sensibility.|dChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002
       |w(DLC)  2002005793 
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