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| List of Abbreviations | ||
| Biographical Note | ||
| A Note on Terms | ||
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| Introduction. The Republic of Letters and Enlightenment | 1 | |
| 1 | Esprit Calvet | 20 |
| 1 | The Life | 20 |
| 2 | The Man | 38 |
| 3 | Riches and Benevolence | 58 |
| 2 | The Intellectual Milieu | 69 |
| 1 | The Circle | 69 |
| 2 | The Mini-Republic | 79 |
| 3 | Letter-Writing | 96 |
| 4 | Portrait of a Republican | 104 |
| 5 | Women and the Republic | 112 |
| 6 | Maintaining the Web | 118 |
| 3 | The Physician | 126 |
| 1 | Medicine in Avignon | 126 |
| 2 | The Professor | 139 |
| 3 | The Researcher and Reformer | 155 |
| 4 | The Practitioner | 171 |
| 5 | The Patron | 186 |
| 4 | The Antiquarian | 193 |
| 1 | Coins | 193 |
| 2 | Antiquities and Antiques | 206 |
| 3 | Inscriptions | 218 |
| 4 | The Scholar | 227 |
| 5 | The Natural Historian | 242 |
| 1 | The Collection | 242 |
| 2 | Collecting | 254 |
| 3 | The Naturalist | 263 |
| 4 | The Cosmologist | 270 |
| 6 | The Bibliophile | 281 |
| 1 | The Library | 281 |
| 2 | Building a Library | 300 |
| 3 | Sharing Books | 312 |
| 4 | Publishing Books | 323 |
| 7 | The Revolutionary Climacteric | 335 |
| 1 | The Web and the Ancien Regime | 335 |
| 2 | The Web and the French Revolution | 344 |
| 3 | Counting the Cost | 357 |
| 4 | The Nationalization of the Republic | 366 |
| 8 | Conclusion: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters | 390 |
| Bibliography | 413 | |
| Index | 435 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $139.64 | Digital |
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Cory Lucas
reviewed Calvet's web on September 25, 2016
Calvet's web
I'm at my parents' for Christmas and they have our old books out for my 3yo niece. Next year: less demanding reading challenge so I don't count easy-reader books as part of my count. :D
That said, these are sweet stories and the drawings are as sweet as the text.
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Add Calvet's web, Calvet's Web is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgr, Calvet's web to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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