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Bycroft, Michael and Wragge-Morley, Alexander (2022) Introduction : science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment. History of Science, 60 (4). pp. 439-457. doi:10.1177/00732753211049039 ISSN 1753-8564.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753211049039
Abstract
A major theme of the European Enlightenment was the rationalization of value, the use of reason to determine the value of things, from diamonds to civilizations. This view of the Enlightenment is well-established in the human sciences. It is ripe for extension to the natural sciences, given the rich recent literature on affect, evaluation, and subjectivity in early modern science. Meanwhile, in art history, the new history of connoisseurship provides a model for the historical study of the evaluation of material things. Historians of natural history have already noted the connections between science, Enlightenment, and connoisseurship. The time has come to extend their insights to other areas of Enlightenment science. This means recognizing the breadth of connoisseurship – the social, linguistic, and disciplinary diversity of the practice – as understood in Europe in the eighteenth century and the latter part of the seventeenth century. An outline of the three papers in this special section gives an indication of how this historiographical project might be carried out.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Alternative Title: | Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment | ||||||||
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Enlightenment -- Europe, Art -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century, Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century, Artisans -- History -- 18th century | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | History of Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1753-8564 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 60 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 439-457 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/00732753211049039 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Bycroft, M., & Wragge-Morley, A. (2022). Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment. History of Science, 60(4), 439–457. Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753211049039 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2023 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2023 | ||||||||
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