Early Modern Fire

Early Modern Fire

Science, Technology, and the Urban Space

Bernasconi, Gianenrico; Storni, Marco

Brill

11/2024

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Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors



Introduction: the Early Modern Fire

?Gianenrico Bernasconi and Marco Storni



Part 1: Fire in Early Modern Science

1 Purity, Purification, and Fire in the Seventeenth-Century Chymical Texts of Nicaise Le Febvre and Michael Sendivogius

?Hannah Elmer



2 'Atoms of Fire': Galileo's Unachieved Theory of Heat and the Beginnings of Thermometry (c.1603-1638)

?Stefano Salvia



3 Without a Thermometer: the Technical Knowledge of Heat in the Early Modern Age

?Marco Storni



4 Working with Fire: Remedy Making from the Shop to the Garden in the Apothecaries' Guild (Eighteenth Century, Paris)

?Berengere Pinaud



Part 2: Early Modern Fire Technologies

5 The Kitchen Fire (Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century)

?Gianenrico Bernasconi



6 Fire Mechanics: Inventors and Promoters of Heating Systems (Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century)

?Olivier Jandot



7 'The Manner of Conducting Fire': Firing Architectural Terracotta in the Modern Era, between Know-How, Wood Shortage, and Innovations

?Cyril Lacheze



8 John Smeaton's Fire Engine Trials

?Andrew M.A. Morris



Part 3: Fire in the Urban Space

9 The Outbreak of Fire: Inventions, Materials, and Combustion Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

?Marie Thebaud-Sorger



10 What Firefighting Tells Us about Eighteenth-Century Urban Police

?Catherine Denys



11 Organising the Chaos: Firefighting in Upper Lusatia in the Early Modern Period

?Cornelia Mueller



12 Spectacle, Enthusiasm, Objectivity - Managing Fire as an Emoterial

?Simon Werrett



Conclusion: the Technicity of Fire in Modern Europe - a Historiographical Crossroads

?Liliane Hilaire-Perez



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