Science and Polity in France : the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.
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 cultur...
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Table of Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; CHAPTER I. Science and Politics under the Constituent Assembly; 1. Science and Politics in 1789; 2. Bailly and the Constituent Assembly; 3. Lavoisier and the Arsenal; 4. Vicq d'Azyr and the Reform of Medicine; 5. Condorcet and Truth in Politics; 6. Condorcet, Bailly, and the Governance of Paris; 7. Political Economy; 8. Varennes and the Champ-de-Mars; CHAPTER II. Education, Science, and Politics; 1. Scientists in the Legislative Assembly; 2. The Condorcet Plan for National Education; 3. Talleyrand's Educational Proposal.
- 4. The Educational Legacy of the Old Regime5. The Political Setting; 6. The Convention; 7. Education and Science; CHAPTER III. The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science: Rise and Fall; 1. Natural History and Theoretical Science; 2. The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle; 3. The Academy of Science in the Revolutionary Climate; 4. Artisans and Inventors; 5. The Last Year of the Academy; CHAPTER IV. The Metric System; 1. Background; 2. Proposals; 3. Methods and Instruments; 4. Operations in the Field; 5. The Provisional Meter; CHAPTER V. Science and the Terror.
- 1. Terror and Expropriation2. The Republican Calendar; 3. The Observatory of Paris; 4. The Collège de France; 5. Individual Destinies; 6. The Calvary of Condorcet; CHAPTER VI. Scientists at War; 1. The Monge Connection; 2. Weaponry; 3. The Mobilization of Scientists; 4. Munitions and Guns; 5. Inventions; 6. Natural History and Conquest; 7. Effects of Wartime: Science and the State; CHAPTER VII. Thermidorean Convention and Directory; 1. Institutionalization of French Science, 1794-1804; 2. Institut de France, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, and Bureau des Longitudes.
- 3. Completion of the Metric System4. The École Normale de l'an III; 5. The École Polytechnique; 6. The École de Santé and Clinical Medicine; CHAPTER VIII. Bonaparte and the Scientific Community; 1. Monge in Italy, 1796-1798; 2. The Egyptian Expedition; 3. The Idéologues and 18 Brumaire; 4. The Consulate, 1799-1804; 5. Napoleon and Science; CHAPTER IX. Positivist Science; 1. Discipline Formation; 2. Comparative Anatomy; 3. Experimental Physiology; 4. Mathematical Physics; 5. Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y.