Berkeley: University of California Press, Date: 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xv, 387 p. 24 cm. 5 plates, 12 figures. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. 1990. University of California Press ISBN 0520059492 9780520059498 [CA]

Berkeley: University of California Press, Date: 1990. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 387pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des Sciences. Blending externalist and internalist approaches, Stroup portrays the Academy in its political and intellectual contexts and also takes us behind the scenes, into the laboratory and into the meetings of a lively, contentious group of investigators. Founded in 1666 under Louis XIV, the Academy had a dual mission: to advance science and to glorify its patron. Creature of the ancien régime as well as of the scientific revolution, it depended for its professional prestige on the goodwill of monarch and ministers. One of the Academy's most ambitious projects was its illustrated encyclopedia of plants. While this work proceeded along old-fashioned descriptive lines, academicians were simultaneously adopting analogical reasoning to investigate the new anatomy and physiology of plants. Efforts to fund and forward competing lines of research ...

ISBN10: 0520059492, ISBN13: 9780520059498, [publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley] Hardcover Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 387pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des Sciences. Blending externalist and internalist approaches, Stroup portrays the Academy in its political and intellectual contexts and also takes us behind the scenes, into the laboratory and into the meetings of a lively, contentious group of investigators. Founded in 1666 under Louis XIV, the Academy had a dual mission: to advance science and to glorify its patron. Creature of the ancien régime as well as of the scientific revolution, it depended for its professional prestige on the goodwill of monarch and ministers. One of the Academy's most ambitious projects was its illustrated encyclopedia of plants. While this work proceeded along old-fashioned descriptive lines, academicians were simultaneously adopting analogical reasoning to investigate the new anatomy and physiology of plants. Efforts to fund ...
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 0520059492, ISBN13: 9780520059498, [publisher: University of California Press] Hardcover 1990. Botany, History of Science. University of California Press. fine cloth and very good dust jacket.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]

ISBN10: 0520059492, ISBN13: 9780520059498, [publisher: Berkeley.: University of California Press, [1990].] Hardcover First Edition 8vo. pp. xv, 387, [1]. several text illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
[Toronto, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 1990]