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Spectacle De La Nature: Or, Nature Display'D. Being Discourses On Such Particulars Of Natural History As Were Thought Most Proper To Excite The Curiosity, And Form The Minds Of Youth. Tr. From The Original French — Noël Antoine Pluche. This English survey gathers a chain of didactic dialogues and a technical memoir to show how arts, commerce, and politics shape society. It blends practical instruction with moral and civic reflection, moving from hands-on craft to public policy. The Fourth Sequel of the Instructive Arts provides detailed machinery and industrial processes (clockwork, coinage, mould-making, and bell-foundry) alongside critical notes on tolerances, maintenance, and plates illustrating techniques. Dialogues Recapitulate the value of experimental physics and natural history versus purely literary study, arguing that genuine knowledge serves public welfare. Commerce and Travels advocates purposeful travel for education, moral restraint, and social duty, with historical examples of merchants shaping nations. Politics surveys governance, religion, and the duties of elites to serve the common good. A glassworks memoir from Saint Gobin adds practical texture to the broader claim: science and craft sustain a well-ordered society.
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Spectacle De La Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth . Tr. from the Original French
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