The faces of nature in Enlightenment Europe / Lorraine Daston, Gianna Pomata (eds.).

Berlin : BWV-Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, [2003], ©2003.

vi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

The faces of nature : visibility and authority / Lorraine Daston & Gianna Pomata -- The environment and the Enlightenment : the English experience / Roy Porter -- Mapping and displaying an English marshland in the mid-eighteenth century / Sarah Bendall -- Extraordinary bodies and the physicotheological imagination / Fernando Vidal -- Nature personified : remaking stage and spectator in mid-eighteenth-century Parma / Martha Feldman -- A French mid-eighteenth century crisis in experimental natural philosophy through public display : Nollet's electrical shows vs. the devious ways of Franklin's electrical atmospheres / Christian Licoppe -- Von der lebendigen Kunstkammer zur Liebhaberei : fürstliche Menagieren im deutschsprachigen Raum während des 18. Jahrhunderts / Annelore Rieke-Müller -- Forging nature at the Republican Museum / Emma C. Spary -- Auto-icon : Jeremy Bentham's three bodies, the moral laws of nature, and the ideology of capitalism / Andrew Cunningham -- The scientist's body : the nature of a woman philosopher in Enlightenment Italy / Paula Findlen -- Women's dialectics, or the thinking uterus : an eighteenth-century controversy on gender and education / Marta Cavazza -- "Sanctuaire de la nature ou prison du fœtus" : nature et corps féminin sous le combat sur la césarienne en France au XVIIIe siècle / Nadia Maria Filippini.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English, French, and German.