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The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783-1820

The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783-1820

Hardcover

Series: Enlightenment World

AviationGeneral SociologyBritish History

ISBN10: 184893016X
ISBN13: 9781848930162
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness.

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