Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Month
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.
Cosmos Les Mondes
Author: Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
The Ecclesiatical Year
Author: John RickabyPublisher:
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Category : Church year
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Month and Catholic Review
Author: Month and Catholic Review
Author: God
Author: Joseph PohleThe Dublin Review
Author: Nicholas Patrick WisemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Papers
Author: American Society of Church HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description