Science and political economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805

Science and political economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805

Maddaluno, Lavinia

Liverpool University Press

10/2024

360

Mole

9781835534045

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

List of figures

Introduction

Actors

The meaning of scientific practice

Competing traditions in political economy

Scientific practices and political economic reforms

Chapter I

Milling the economy: bread making practices and ersatz in eighteenth-century mila

Landriani as a go-between

Father carrara's bakery and barraco's machine

Maize and economic milling

Chapter II

From economic machines to public happiness

Beccaria and the measure of the enlightenment

Pasta, bread making presses and "intermittent" lumi

Mechanical artefacts and the state

Galilean and cameralist echoes

Chapter III

Perpetuating private property: machines and hydraulics

Miglioramento, language and economia rustica

Castelli's hydraulics

D'alembert and progress

The "character of sovereigns"

The ventilatore idraulico

Spaces of political economy: natural history, mineralogy and wealth

Domenico vandelli's survey of valsassina (1763)

Vandelli's travel journal: cameralism, curiositas and utilitas

Shifting to mineralogy and the soil

Networks of natural history knowledge

Action, history and projectors

Chapter V

Visions of the soil between enlightened reforms and the napoleonic period

The ispettorato per i nitri e le polveri

From roman to milanese soil

Creating saltpetre expertise

Spaces of rural economy: the soil and its fertility

Conclusion

Starting with grain, ending with the soil

Bibliography

Manuscript sources

Printed sources

Editions of sources

Secondary sources
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Political Economy and Science;Intellectual History;Italian and Milanese Enlightenment;Science in the Enlightenment;Material Enlightenment