Science and polity in France the revolutionary and Napoleonic years
Title:
Science and polity in France the revolutionary and Napoleonic years
Author:
Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
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9781400824618
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Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 751 p.)
Contents:
Science and politics under the constituent assembly -- Education, science, and politics -- The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science : rise and fall -- The metric system -- Science and the terror -- Scientists at war -- Thermidorean convention and directory -- Bonaparte and the scientific community -- Positivist science.
Abstract:
By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.
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