Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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N509.44/8
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English
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viii, 751 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. I. Science and politics under the constituent assembly -- Ch. II. Education, science, and politics -- Ch. III. The museum of natural history and the academy of science : rise and fall -- Ch. IV. The metric system -- Ch. V. Science and the terror -- Ch. VI. Scientists at war -- Ch. VII. Thermidor...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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New Jersey
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c2004.
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"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 encour...
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Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-716) and index.
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c2004.
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N509.44/8
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74VKpbkGbo83
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0691115419 (acid-free paper)
9780691115412 (acid-free paper)
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509.44
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991019416459702626
