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Michael R Lynn
The Sublime Invention [PDF ebook]
Ballooning in Europe, 1783 1820

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Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness.

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Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781317324164 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4432359 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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