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100 1 _aHolland, Jocelyn,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTheory’s Practice: Reflections on Technology in Germany around 1800 /
_cJocelyn Holland.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2025.
264 4 _c©2025
300 _a1 online resource (260 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aEarly Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025
490 1 _aTechnology and Change in History ;
_v19
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tContents -- Translator’s Note -- Introduction: the Past, Present and Future of “Technology,” circa 1800 -- Part 1: From technologia to Technologie -- Essay: Overview of the Entry on “Technologie” from Johann Heinrich Zedler’s Universal Lexicon -- Translation: Zedler’s Lexicon Entry, “Technologie” -- Essay: Johann Beckmann (1739–1811): Technological Objects, Practices, and Ideas -- Translation: Beckmann’s Preface to the Guide to Technology, 1st Edition (1777) -- Translation: Introduction to the Guide to Technology, 1st Edition (1777) -- Part 2: Technological Orders -- Essay: Two Genres, Two Approaches to Technology: a Dictionary and a System -- Translation: Johann Beckmann’s Preface to the Technological Dictionary, 1st Edition (1781) -- Translation: Johann Jacobsson’s Preface to the Technological Dictionary, 1st Edition (1781) -- Translation: Introduction to Georg Lamprecht’s Instruction Book of Technology, 1st Edition (1787) -- Part 3: General vs. Historical Technology, circa 1800 -- Essay: Technology’s Two Perspectives: the General and the Historical -- Translation: Johann Beckmann’s Draft of a General Technology, 1st Edition (1806) -- Translation: Preface to Johann Poppe’s History of Technology, 1st Edition (1807) -- Translation: General Introduction to Johann Poppe’s History of Technology, 1st Edition (1807) -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aWhat is technology? When we grapple with this question, we try to understand something fundamental about humanity, given that technical objects and practices inform every aspect of our lives. The focus in this study on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany underscores a pivotal moment in technology’s conceptual history and offers a fresh perspective. The translations and interpretive essays in this volume show how those writers engaged with technology reflected on its history and innovations even as they engaged in more speculative thinking. Their work, definitive of a historical epoch, can still speak to us today.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHistory.
650 0 _aLanguages and Linguistics.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tTheory’s Practice: Reflections on Technology in Germany around 1800.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
_z9789004549531
830 0 _aEarly Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
830 0 _aTechnology and Change in History ;
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