Style and Substance in Rococo Science

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ID4009997
AuthorsMichael Bycroft (0000-0002-3743-5740, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume48
Issue3
Pages359-384
Publication date2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh_a_01162
OpenAlexW2768848520
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Rococo art and Enlightenment science, both of which flourished in Paris from 1710 to 1740, appear to have embodied two different sets of values. But the stylistic differences between them dissolve in their common concern with making and manipulating substances. Scientists at the Paris Academy of Science, especially René Réaumur and Charles Dufay, experimented on many of the same substances that artists used, often exploiting the same properties. Studying style and substance together brings out the connections between art and science and shows the value of respecting these two disciplines when writing their history

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Embodied cognition · Enlightenment · Epistemology · History of science · Literature · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Value (mathematics) · Historical and Literary Studies · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Mathematics · Philosophy

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