Versailles: Science and Splendour.
Language: English
Published by Scala, 2025
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128 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Hardback ISBN: 9781785515828. Examining how the French monarchy harnessed science to enhance its prestige and extend its global influence under Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. 16 essays explore Henri Testelin's painting of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Isaac Thuret and clockmaking, astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini's map of the moon, hydraulic engineering and the Marly machine, the cultivation of pineapples at Versailles, Louis XV's rhinoceros, Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz and the Trianon Garden, Claude-Simeon Passemant's clock of the creation of the world, a portrait of Emilie du Chatelet, Abbe Jean-Antoine Nollet's inventions, Madame du Coudray's obstetric teaching model, portraits of Denis Diderot, the chemistry laboratory model for the King's sons, the expedition of La Perouse, and the flight of the Montgolfiere hot air balloon.
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- Title
- Versailles: Science and Splendour.
- Author
- Ferrari, Anna
- Publisher
- Scala
- Publication year
- 2025
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1785515829
- ISBN 13
- 9781785515828
A richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the French court of Versailles – published to accompany the exhibition at London’s Science Museum.
Between the 1660s and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, the royal palace of Versailles – commonly associated with its architecture, gardens and courtly splendour – was also a place of serious scientific enquiry. This engaging book reveals how the French monarchy harnessed science to enhance its prestige and extend its global influence.
Versailles: Science and Splendour explores the relationship between science and power during the reigns of kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, a period when the practice of what we now call ‘science’ changed significantly, and highlights how science and empire were connected at Versailles.
This book, which accompanies a temporary exhibition at the Science Museum in London, features 16 chapters by experts from Britain, France and America. Each chapter is inspired by fascinating objects, from a stuffed rhinoceros to an exquisite astronomical clock. The stories covered range from the early days of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and the engineering behind Versailles’s fountains, to the menagerie of rare animals that lived in the grounds and the first hot-air balloon flight at the palace.
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About the Author
Anna Ferrari is Curator of Art and Visual Culture at the Science Museum and lead curator of the exhibition Versailles: Science and Splendour (2024–25). Trained as an art historian, she has previously curated and co-curated exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
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