Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie Des Sciences 1666-1750Boydell & Brewer, 1995 - 461 pàgines This comprehensive survey of the members of France's Academie des Sciences to the 1750s takes up the challenge to search for a way to connect history of science with social and cultural history at the bottom (the level of the scientists) rather than at the top (the level of philosophical debate about science and culture) (T.L. Hankins, In Defence of Biography: the Use of Biography in the History of Science, in History of Science, 17 (1979), 1-16). The book focuses primarily on the academicians themselves; and although it has much to say about the Academie as an institution, it does so in the light of the changing positions which the academicians occupied in the social hierarchy of early modern France. It explores the implications of those changes for the development of the Academie down to the mid-1700s, and it argues that throughout this period the the relationship which the Academie had with the Bourbon regime, and with French society in general, was governed governed to a large extent by the personal circumstances of the academicians. |
Continguts
The Scientific Context | 3 |
The Political Context | 26 |
The Context of Patronage | 39 |
The Foundation of the Académie des Sciences and its First Members | 61 |
Colbert and the Foundation of the Académie in 1666 | 63 |
Those with Backgrounds in Law | 80 |
Roberval and Duclos | 101 |
Academicians in their Forties | 110 |
The Formation Social Status and Mentality of an Academician 16661699 | 260 |
The Reform of 1699 | 279 |
Principles and Statutes 1699 | 281 |
the Mathematical Sciences | 297 |
the Life Sciences | 307 |
GillesFrançois | 321 |
The Members of 1699 in Context | 343 |
The Secretaries and Bignon | 351 |
The Elèves | 127 |
The Founder Members in Retrospect | 138 |
Members of the Académie 16661698 | 143 |
The Early Years of the Académie | 145 |
the Period to 1683 | 169 |
the La Hire Family | 193 |
The Members Appointed by Louvois 16831691 | 214 |
the First Phase Bignon Homberg and Tournefort | 221 |
the Second Phase | 239 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abbé academicians Académie d'Architecture Académie des Sciences Académie Française Académie's adjoint apothecary appointed aristocrats associé astronomical Auzout Bibliothèque Bignon Blondel Boulduc Bourdelin brother Carcavi career Cassini Chambre Claude Claude Perrault Claude-Joseph Colbert Collège Royal Condorcet court crown daughter Directeur Dodart Duc d'Orléans élève eloge entered the Académie eulogy father Fontenelle Fouchy Fouquet France François French Frondes Gabriel-Philippe Gallois Geoffroy Hamel Hire Histoire Homberg Huygens Ibid intellectual Inventaire Après-Décès inventory Jacques Jardin Royal Jean Jean Pecquet Jean-Nicolas l'Académie Royale la Hire Lémery livres Louis XIV Louvois marriage married Mazarin medicine membership Mémoires Mersenne Montmor Nicolas Niquet Observatory Papiers Privés Paris Parisian Parlement patronage Pecquet pension pensionnaire Perrault Philippe philosophy physician Pierre Président Réaumur rentes Richelieu Roberval Royal des Plantes Royale des Sciences Saint savants scholars scientific scientists Siècle sieur society Sous-Dir Titres et Papiers Tournefort University of Paris Vice-Prés wife
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