Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 186
Book Description
Les sociétés savantes
Author: Les Sociétés Savantes
Author: Congrès National des Sociétés Savantes. Section d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine et Commission d'Histoire des Sciences et des TechniquesPublisher:
ISBN: 9782717713060
Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 386
Book Description
The History and Power of Writing
Author: Henri-Jean MartinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226508366
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Continuing on to the electronic revolution, Martin's account takes in the changes wrought on writing by computers and electronic systems of storage and communication, and offers surprising insights into the influence these new technologies have had on children born into the computer age. The power of writing to influence and dominate is, indeed, a central theme in this history, as Martin explores the processes by which the written word has gradually imposed its logic on society over four thousand years. The summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars on the subject, this fascinating account of writing explains much about the world we inhabit, where we uneasily confer, accept, and resist the power of the written word.
Les sociétés savantes, leur histoire
Author: The Savant and the State
Author: Robert FoxPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408783
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
How scientific discoveries and practice were integrated into nineteenth-century French culture and thought. Winner of the Sarton Medal for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement of the History of Science Society There has been a tendency to view science in nineteenth-century France as the exclusive territory of the nation’s leading academic centers and the powerful Paris-based administrators who controlled them. Ministries and the great savants and institutions of the capital seem to have defined the field, while historians have ignored or glossed over traditions on the periphery of science. In The Savant and the State, Robert Fox charts new historiographical territory by synthesizing the practices and thought of state-sanctioned scientists and those of independent communities of savants and commentators with very different political, religious, and cultural priorities. Fox provides a comprehensive history of the public face of French science from the Bourbon Restoration to the outbreak of the Great War. Following the Enlightenment, many different interests competed to define the role of science and technology in French society. Political and religious conservatives tended to blame the scientific community for upsetting traditional values and, implicitly, delivering France into the hands of revolutionary extremists and Napoleonic bureaucrats. Scientists, for their part, embraced the belief that observation and experimentation offered the surest way to the knowledge and wisdom on which the welfare of society depended. This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Les Sociétés savantes et l'histoire des sciences
Author: Paul TanneryLes Sociétés savantes et l'histoire du droit
Author: Jean-François LemarignierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 7
Book Description
Science and Social Status
Author: David J. SturdyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851153957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
The Antiquarians of the Nation
Author: Francesca ZantedeschiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's nineteenth-century archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a ‘national’ (Catalan) cultural revival.