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This comprehensive survey of the members of the Académie 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 Académie 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 Académie down to the mid-1700s, and it argues that throughout this period the relationship which the Académie had with the Bourbonregime 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 Académie, but differs from them in content, sources and method, and adopts a perspective on the Académie which is of relevance to historians of science and social historians of early modern France alike.DAVID J. STURDYis Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster.
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Thoroughly researched, a veritable treasure trove of biographical information. BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Vividly depicts real people struggling with the financial problems of everyday life and the peculiar social system of Louis XIV's France... a significant contribution to the scholarly literature concerning the Academy and the evolving social status of French men of science at the dawn of the eighteenth century. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Sturdy's assured grasp of the political and cultural complexities of early modern Europe will prove valuable to any reader interested in the relations between absolutism and intellectual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. FRENCH HISTORY A fine book which deserves readers of several sorts... history of science, sociology of the past or French history. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY
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Science and social status : the members of the Acade?mie des sciences, 1666-1750 / David J. Sturdy
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1st edition. 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; Acade?mie des sciences (France) Members Social conditions History. Scientists France Social conditions. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 387188
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Science and social status : the members of the Acade?mie des sciences, 1666-1750 / David J. Sturdy
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1st edition. 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; Acade?mie des sciences (France) Members Social conditions History. Scientists France Social conditions. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 387188
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Science and social status : the members of the Acade?mie des sciences, 1666-1750 / David J. Sturdy
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First Edition. 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: Acade?mie des sciences (France) Members Social conditions History. Acade?mie des sciences (France)Académie des sciences.Academie des Sciences (Paris). Académie des sciences (France)Acade?mie des sciences History. Académie des sciences (France) Members Social coditions History. Acade?mie des sciences. Académie des sciences (France) Members Social conditions History. Académie des sciences Members Social coditions History. Acade?mie des sciences (France)Académie des sciences (Paris). 17th-18th centuries.Scientists France Social conditions History. Scientists France Social conditions 17th century.Scientists France Social conditions 18th century.Science Social aspects.Science Societies, etc.Scientists France History.Scientists France Social conditions. Scientists France ; Biography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 386210
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