Conserving the Enlightenment will be for some years to come the definitive study of the origins and early history of the French military engineering corps, one of the seeds from which the modern engineering profession generally and the American engineering profession specifically sprouted. -- Terry S. Reynolds, Michigan Technical University, editor of The Engineer in America This important book offers counterpoint to Kenneth Alder's Engineering the Revolution. With great skill and imagination, Langins exploits an eighteenth-century controversy over fortification design to illuminate the nature of engineering, the tension between theory and practice, the contrast between the lone genius and institutionalized professionalism, and the relationship between engineering and revolution. -- Alex Roland, Duke University
Janis Langins is a professor at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
" Conserving the Enlightenment will be for some years to come the definitive study of the origins and early history of the French military engineering corps, one of the seeds from which the modern engineering profession generally and the American engineering profession specifically sprouted." Terry S. Reynolds, Michigan Technical University, editor of The Engineer in America "This important book offers counterpoint to Kenneth Alder's Engineering the Revolution. With great skill and imagination, Langins exploits an eighteenth-century controversy over fortification design to illuminate the nature of engineering, the tension between theory and practice, the contrast between the lone genius and institutionalized professionalism, and the relationship between engineering and revolution." Alex Roland, Duke University "*Conserving the Enlightenment* will be for some years to come the definitive study of the origins and early history of the French military engineering corps, one of the seeds from which the modern engineering profession generally and the American engineering profession specifically sprouted."--Terry S. Reynolds, Professor of History, Michigan Technical University, editor, *The Engineer in America*
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