Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
Reading List on Ethics
Author: Frank Hayden WhitmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, (1665 to 1882)
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Bibliography
Author: A Selection of Cataloguers Reference Books in New York State Library
Author: American Library Association. Committee on Foreign DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bio-bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals. 1665-1895
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Bibliography Bulletin
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Science and Polity in France
Author: Charles Coulston GillispiePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140086531X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
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 modernization both of politics and science. In politics, argues Gillispie, the central feature of this modernization was conversion of subjects of a monarchy into citizens of a republic in direct contact with a state enormously augmented in power. To the scientific community, attainment of professional status was what citizenship was to all Frenchmen in the republic proper, namely the license to self-governance and dignity within the respective contexts. Revolutionary circumstances set up a resonance between politics and science since practitioners of both were future oriented in their outlook and scornful of the past. Among the creations of the First French Republic were institutions providing the earliest higher education in science. From them emerged rigorously trained people who constituted the founding generation in the disciplines of mathematical physics, positivistic biology, and clinical medicine. That scientists were able to achieve their ends was owing to the expertise they provided the revolutionary and imperial authorities in education, medicine, warfare, empire building, and industrial technology.