Tresch, J: Romantic Machine - Utopian Science and Technology Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon

"A work which brings into glittering relief the materials of scientific exploration in the early nineteenth century and reveals how scientists were, beyond the ostensible field of enquiry, profoundly engaged with the emotive, social and spiritual dimensions of their discoveries. . . . Of certain appeal to historians of science and scholars in popular culture "The Romantic Machine" . . . makes a distinct contribution to the study of technological thought, and gestures frequently towards the work of figures as diverse as Bergson, Deleuze, and Simondon."--Greg Kerr, University of Glasgow "Nineteenth-Century French Studies "