… phenomena experienced a wide range of emotions, including religious devotion, apprehension of the sublime powers of nature, and admiration for enlightened rationality. Experimentation elicited such feelings by bringing natural philosophy … sensations. They felt shocks or saw sparks fly as they approached or touched one another. Electricity was a force of nature generated from matter; it also stimulated an aesthetic sensitivity in the human body. This was a novel …
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… aussi bien pour des œuvres d’art (gravure, peinture et sculpture), que pour les objets ethnographiques, les spécimens naturels et les antiquités rapportées d’Italie ou de Grèce en Angleterre. C’est principalement dans les demeures des … Portrait Gallery , London, NPG 77, 1813. Certaines collections comportaient, en effet, des plantes, des spécimens naturels, des fossiles et des objets ethnographiques qui témoignaient du pillage colonial des peuples et des territoires, …
… than gentility. 11 11 . Palmira Fontes da Costa, ‘The making of extraordinary facts: authentication of singularities of nature at the Royal Society of London in the first half of the eighteenth century,’ Studies in History and the Philosophy … Royal Society statutes specified, the purpose of the exhibition of these curiosities was ‘to discourse upon, rarities of nature and art; and thereupon to consider, what may be deduced from them, or any of them; and how far they, or any of … (1934), pp. 98–99. 16 . Palmira Fontes da Costa, ‘The making of extraordinary facts: authentication of singularities of nature at the Royal Society of London in the first half of the eighteenth century’, Studies in History and the Philosophy …