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Étienne Louis Malus [Rez.]: Traité des Couleurs. Extrait de l’ouvrage allemand, par M. Goethe (1811)
ÉtienneMalus, Étienne Louis (1775–1812) Louis MalusMalus, Étienne Louis (1775–1812) (23. Juli 1775 Paris – 24. Februar 1812 Paris) trat 1793 in die...
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Georges Cuvier: De la philosophie de la nature en Allemagne et en France (1845)
Der französischeCuvier, Georges (1769–1832) Naturforscher Georges CuvierCuvier, Georges (1769–1832) (23. August 1769 Montbéliard – 13. Mai 1832...
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Fernand Papillon: Doctrine physiologique leibnizienne de Goethe (1876)
FernandPapillon, Fernand (1847–1874) PapillonPapillon, Fernand (1847–1874) (5. Juni 1847 Belfort – 2. Januar 1874 Belfort) studierteLeibniz,...
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François-Louis Hahn: Goethe. Le plus grand poète de l’Allemagne (1883)
François-LouisDarwin, Charles (1809–1882) HahnHahn, François-Louis (1844–1921) (6. Dezember 1844 Straßburg – 20. Dezember 1921 Saint-Denis d’Oléron)...
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Ernest Faivre: Goethe Naturaliste (1859)
Ernest FaivreFaivre, Ernest (1827–1879) (16. März 1827 Pontailler – 24. Juni 1879 Lyon)Faivre, Ernest (1827–1879) studierte Rechtswissenschaft,...
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Old Prophesies, Multiple Modernities: The Stormy Afterlife of a Medieval Pietist in Early Modern Ashkenaz
What was the role of the medieval pietistic heritage in the re-formation of eighteenth century’s Jewish cultures, consciousness, and identities?...
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The Aspiring Godfather
Voltaire represents himself as a tolerant connoisseur of anti-Jewish prejudices in his Commentaire historique sur les oeuvres de l’auteur de La...
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Le renouveau paracelsien: construire sa légitimité d’auteur par le recours à l’expérience, le cas de Pierre Braillier, apothicaire du XVIe siècle
À Lyon, le „renouveau paracelsien“ est en vogue dès les années 1550, notamment grâce à l’influence de Barthélemy Aneau, alors régent au Collège de La...
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Commander-in-Chief, India: Campaigns (1893–1898)
Chapter 7, “Commander-in-Chief, India: Campaigns (1893–1898),” continues the investigation of White’s five-year tenure as senior military officer in...
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The “Tolerated” Rabbi
This chapter analyses Le Sermon du rabin Akib (1761), and in particular Akib/Voltaire’s refusal to accuse the Jews of deicide. In the Sermon,...
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On the Edge of Empire: Baluchistan (1889–1892)
Chapter 5, “On the Edge of Empire (1889–1892),” looks at White’s three-and-half year stint in Baluchistan. It examines White’s conduct of the Zhob...
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Enlightened Women at Work: The Case of Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1770s–1790s)
Scholars of the Enlightenment have shown that the concept of labour was deeply influenced by eighteenth-century representations of gender difference....
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The Early Career of Fath ‘Ali Shah (1798–1804)
As early as 1794 Agha Mohammad Shah, a eunuch with no children of his own, had designated his nephew Fath ‘Ali Khan, whom he always referred to as...
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The Making of Lettered Girlhood: Epistolary Literacy as an Instrument of Peer Mothering in Dutch Girls’ Books
This chapter analyses how the paradoxical idea of literacy as an aspect of, as well as a threat to, ideal femininity was transmitted by means of...
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From ‘Adel Shah to the Death of Karim Khan Zand (1748–1779)
Shortly after Nader Shah’s assassination, newspapers reported the accession of his nephew, ‘Ali Qoli Khan, to the Persian throne, and just as quickly...
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The American Mission at Urmia (1833–1848)
The American Presbyterian missionary presence at Urmia in northwestern Iran afforded North American newspaper readers new insight into life in...
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A Justification for Colonization
This chapter describes the origins of the justification for colonization that the Japanese government later used in its diplomatic arguments about...
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Britain and Britons in Emigrant Retrospective Self-narratives
The critical examination of a corpus of retrospective narratives by returned emigrants demonstrates that mémoires and souvenirs written between the...
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Experimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space
Notoriously, Descartes does not have a concept of space. Or more precisely, he takes space as indistinguishable from matter or extension. Yet, to...
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The Functional Ambiguity of Censorship and the French Enlightenment
In 1769, the French translation of a major investigation of the Ottoman Empire was printed in Paris with the place of publication falsely given as...