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The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

Creator:

Caulkins, Tamara L.

Abstract:

During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

. Elena Aronova, Christine von Oertzen, and David Sepkoski observe in their essay on “Historicizing Big