{"product_id":"in-the-land-of-marvels-science-fabricated-realities-and-industrial-espionage-in-the-age-of-the-grand-tour-hardcover","title":"In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaola Bertucci\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At the end of his nine-month tour, he published a highly influential account of his philosophical battle with his Italian counterparts, discrediting them as misguided devotees of the marvelous. Paola Bertucci's \u003ci\u003eIn the Land of Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly reveals the mysteries of Nollet's journey, uncovering a subterranean world of secretive and ambitious intelligence gathering masked as scientific inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe advent of electricity was a pivotal phenomenon not only in the history of physical experimentation, but also in the cultivation of popular scientific interest. Nollet's journey was supposedly inspired by the need to investigate, and subsequently report on, claims of the use of electrified \"medicated tubes\" by their Italian inventor Gianfrancesco Pivati. Motivated by economic interests in the silk industry, Nollet's journey was in fact an undercover mission commissioned by the French state to discover the secrets of Italian silk manufacture and possibly supplant its international success. The event that sparked the medical controversy--the unusual cure of a bishop--was a complete fabrication. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBertucci insightfully contrasts published accounts of the event with private documents and discusses how eighteenth-century scientists published fictional events and results to bolster their careers, ultimately leading to long-lasting misrepresentations of scientific practice and enduring stereotypes. \u003ci\u003eIn the Land of Marvels \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the constellation of historical actors, from reputed physicists to travel writers and electrical amateurs, who manipulated information to gain authority and prestige.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaola Bertucci\u003c\/b\u003e (NEW HAVEN, CT) is a professor in the Department of History at Yale University. She is the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eArtisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52631751164211,"sku":"9781421447100","price":100.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/S0YxvrGaXa9781421447100.webp?v=1762188769","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/in-the-land-of-marvels-science-fabricated-realities-and-industrial-espionage-in-the-age-of-the-grand-tour-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}