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Science and Polity in France : The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultur...
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2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a COVER; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; CHAPTER I. Science and Politics under the Constituent Assembly; 1. Science and Politics in 1789; 2. Bailly and the Constituent Assembly; 3. Lavoisier and the Arsenal; 4. Vicq d'Azyr and the Reform of Medicine; 5. Condorcet and Truth in Politics; 6. Condorcet, Bailly, and the Governance of Paris; 7. Political Economy; 8. Varennes and the Champ-de-Mars; CHAPTER II. Education, Science, and Politics; 1. Scientists in the Legislative Assembly; 2. The Condorcet Plan for National Education; 3. Talleyrand's Educational Proposal. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 4. The Educational Legacy of the Old Regime5. The Political Setting; 6. The Convention; 7. Education and Science; CHAPTER III. The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science: Rise and Fall; 1. Natural History and Theoretical Science; 2. The Museum d'Histoire Naturelle; 3. The Academy of Science in the Revolutionary Climate; 4. Artisans and Inventors; 5. The Last Year of the Academy; CHAPTER IV. The Metric System; 1. Background; 2. Proposals; 3. Methods and Instruments; 4. Operations in the Field; 5. The Provisional Meter; CHAPTER V. Science and the Terror. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Terror and Expropriation2. The Republican Calendar; 3. The Observatory of Paris; 4. The College de France; 5. Individual Destinies; 6. The Calvary of Condorcet; CHAPTER VI. Scientists at War; 1. The Monge Connection; 2. Weaponry; 3. The Mobilization of Scientists; 4. Munitions and Guns; 5. Inventions; 6. Natural History and Conquest; 7. Effects of Wartime: Science and the State; CHAPTER VII. Thermidorean Convention and Directory; 1. Institutionalization of French Science, 1794-1804; 2. Institut de France, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, and Bureau des Longitudes. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 3. Completion of the Metric System4. The École Normale de l'an III; 5. The École Polytechnique; 6. The École de Sante and Clinical Medicine; CHAPTER VIII. Bonaparte and the Scientific Community; 1. Monge in Italy, 1796-1798; 2. The Egyptian Expedition; 3. The Ideologues and 18 Brumaire; 4. The Consulate, 1799-1804; 5. Napoleon and Science; CHAPTER IX. Positivist Science; 1. Discipline Formation; 2. Comparative Anatomy; 3. Experimental Physiology; 4. Mathematical Physics; 5. Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y. | |
| 520 | |a From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural, political, and technical factors that encouraged scientific productivity on the eve of the Revolution. In the present monumental and elegantly written sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to moderniz. | ||
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