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Woodbridge : Boydell Press, Date: 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 461 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-448) and index. Contents: pt. 1. The 1660s in Context. 1. The Scientific Context. 2. The Political Context. 3. The Context of Patronage -- pt. 2. The Foundation of the Academie des Sciences and its First Members. 4. Colbert and the Foundation of the Academie in 1666. 5. The Founder Members of the Academie des Sciences: Those with Backgrounds in Law. 6. Roberval and Duclos. 7. The Majority: Academicians in their Forties. 8. The Eleves. 9. The Founder Members in Retrospect -- pt. 3. Members of the Academie, 1666-1698. 10. The Early Years of the Academie. 11. The Members Appointed 1669-1698: the period to 1683. 12. Dynasticism in the Academie: the La Hire Family. 13. The Members Appointed by Louvois, 1683-1691. 14. Pontchartrain and Membership to 1698: the First Phase: Bignon, Homberg and Tournefort. 15. Pontchartrain and Membership to 1698: the Second Phase. 16. The Formation, Social Status and Mentality of an Academician, 1666-1699 -- pt. 4. The Reform of 1699. Subjects: Académie des sciences (France) Members Social conditions History. Académie des sciences (France) Académie des sciences. Academie des Science ...
Woodbridge : Boydell Press, Date: 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy with the original paper title-label. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 461 pp. : ill. ; 25 cm. Contents; pt. 1. The 1660s in Context. 1. The Scientific Context. 2. The Political Context. 3. The Context of Patronage -- pt. 2. The Foundation of the Academie des Sciences and its First Members. 4. Colbert and the Foundation of the Academie in 1666. 5. The Founder Members of the Academie des Sciences: Those with Backgrounds in Law. 6. Roberval and Duclos. 7. The Majority: Academicians in their Forties. 8. The Eleves. 9. The Founder Members in Retrospect -- pt. 3. Members of the Academie, 1666-1698. 10. The Early Years of the Academie. 11. The Members Appointed 1669-1698: the period to 1683. 12. Dynasticism in the Academie: the La Hire Family. 13. The Members Appointed by Louvois, 1683-1691. 14. Pontchartrain and Membership to 1698: the First Phase: Bignon, Homberg and Tournefort. 15. Pontchartrain and Membership to 1698: the Second Phase. 16. The Formation, Social Status and Mentality of an Academician, 1666-1699 -- pt. 4. The Reform of 1699; etc. Subjects; Académie des sciences (France) Members Social conditions History. Scientists France Social conditions. 1995. Woodbridge : Boydell Press ISBN 085115395x 9780851153957 [IE]
ISBN10: 085115395X, ISBN13: 9780851153957, [publisher: Aldershot: Boydell Press, 1995.] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. xvi, 461 pp; 4 illus. Near Fine, without dust jacket. 'This comprehensive survey of the members of the Acadmie 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 Acadmie 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 Acadmie down to the mid-1700s, and it argues that throughout this period the relationship which the Acadmie had with the Bourbon regime and with French society in general, was governed to alarge extent by the personal circumstances of the academicians. Science and Social Status complements other major works dealing with the Acadmie, but differs from them in content, sources and method, and adopts a perspective on the Acadmie which is of relevance to historians of science and social historians of ea ...
ISBN10: 085115395X, ISBN13: 9780851153957, [publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc] Hardcover New [Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]
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