October 2023 News

Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour," (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)

October 17, 2023

How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the celebrated French physicist...

Paola Bertucci, “In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)

October 17, 2023

How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the celebrated French physicist...