TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levitt,Theresa
TI  - The shadow of enlightenment: optical and political transparency in France, 1789-1848 
SN  - 9780191720178 (ebook) :
AV  - TA1522 
U1  - 530.094409033 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Optical engineering
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This work examines the intersection of science and politics in the work of Francois Arago and Jean-Baptiste Biot, the principle architects of the optical revolution of early 19th-century France. Their disagreement over the optical accessibility of the world played out across a wide range of French culture
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544707.001.0001
ER  -