Versailles: Science and Splendour

Directors' Forewords

Acknowledgements

Lenders

Curator's Note

Introduction

The Royal Academy of Sciences: Painting Science and Power

Thuret and Clockmaking at the Royal Academy of Sciences

Cassini's Map of the

Thuret's Machines: A Hymn to the Glory of the King 42

The Marly Machine: The Quest to Bring Water to Versailles 48

Between Science and Diplomacy: Cultivating Pineapples at Versailles 54

Louis XV's Rhinoceros

Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz and the Trianon Garden

The Clock of the Creation of the World

A Portrait of Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749)

Abbe Jean-Antoine Nollet's Spectacle of Science

Madame du Coudray's 'Machine'

'A Fairly Good Likeness': Diderot and his Portraits

A Chemistry Laboratory Model for Princely Education

Mapping La Perouse's Expedition: Louis XVI and the Pacific

The Flight of the Montgolfiere at Versailles

Bibliography

Picture Credits

Contributors

Index

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• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• História da Ciência
• História da Europa
• Museus e museologia

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