This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.
"L'Encyclopédie fut l'ouvrage-phare du Siècle des Lumières. Mais n'est-elle plus, au XXIe siècle, qu'un monument à admirer de loin? L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de donner envie de la découvrir ou de la redécouvrir. On trouvera ici l'essentiel de ce qu'on sait aujourd'hui sur ce…
L'Encyclopédie fut l'ouvrage-phare du Siècle des Lumières. Mais n'est-elle plus, au XXIe siècle, qu'un monument à admirer de loin ? L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de donner envie de la découvrir ou de la redécouvrir. On trouvera ici l'essentiel de ce qu'on sait aujourd'hui sur ce…
As our understanding of the Enlightenment has become more capacious, it makes it difficult to disentangle the messy history of Enlightenment, equality, and racial classification. This book aims to make sense of this complicated history by searching for the ways in which equality…
As our understanding of the Enlightenment has become more capacious, it makes it difficult to disentangle the messy history of Enlightenment, equality, and racial classification. This book aims to make sense of this complicated history by searching for the ways in which equality…
As our understanding of the Enlightenment has become more capacious, it makes it difficult to disentangle the messy history of Enlightenment, equality, and racial classification. This book aims to make sense of this complicated history by searching for the ways in which equality…
Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse--th…
