Early modern fire science, technology, and the urban space / edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi, Marco Storni.

Other author Bernasconi, Gianenrico, 1973-
Other author Storni, Marco, 1990-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
Descriptionpages cm.
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Subjects
Fire--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Fire--Europe. --History. --18th century.
Firemaking--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Firemaking--Europe. --History. --18th century.
Firefighting--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Firefighting--Europe. --History. --18th century.
Urbanization--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Urbanization--Europe. --History. --18th century.

SeriesIntersections, 1568-1181 ; volume 95
Contents Introduction : the early modern fire / Gianenrico Bernasconi and Marco Storni -- Part 1. Fire in early modern science -- Purity, purification, and fire in the seventeenth-century chymical texts of Nicaise Le Febvre and Michael Sendivogius / Hannah Elmer -- Atoms of fire : Galileo's unachieved theory of heat and the beginnings of thermometry (c.1603-1638) / Stefano Salvia -- Without a thermometer : the technical knowledge of heat in the early modern age / Marco Storni -- Working with fire : remedy making from the shop to the garden in the Apothecaries' Guild (eighteenth century, Paris) / Bérengère Pinaud -- Part 2. Early modern fire technologies -- The kitchen fire (eighteenth and early nineteenth century) / Gianenrico Bernasconi -- Fire mechanics : inventors and promoters of heating systems (eighteenth and early nineteenth century) / Olivier Jandot -- 'The manner of conducting fire' : firing architectural terracotta in the modern era, between know-how, wood shortage, and innovations / Cyril Lacheze -- John Smeaton's fire engine trials / Andrew M.A. Morris -- Part 3. Fire in the urban space -- The outbreak of fire : inventions, materials, and combustion knowledge in the eighteenth century / Marie Thébaud-Sorger -- What firefighting tells us about eighteenth-century urban police / Catherine Denys -- Organising the chaos : firefighting in Upper Lusatia in the early modern period / Cornelia Müller -- Spectacle, enthusiasm, objectivity : managing fire as an emoterial / Simon Werrett -- Conclusion : the technicity of fire in modern Europe : a historiographical crossroads / Liliane Hilaire-Pérez.
Abstract "Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period. Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking, from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fi re is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms. Contributors include: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Muller, Berengere Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie Thebaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett"-- Provided by publisher.
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