Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism
DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY
Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance
Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free
Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge
SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS
The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism
Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden
ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES
Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions
Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity
Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World
Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.
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THE ROMANTIC MACHINE : Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon by John Tresch. ISBN 9780226812205. Published by THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
