The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon by John Tresch

The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

John Tresch

472 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In the years immediately following Napoleon’s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment’...

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