Science and polity in France
Subtitle: the revolutionary and Napoleonic years
By: Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 751
Subjects: Science -- France -- History; Science and state -- France
Description: "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 encouraged scientific productivity on the eve of the Revolution. In the present monumental sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic contexts contributed to modernization of both politics and science."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-716) and index.

"Gift, March 2006"
Table of contents: title: Science and politics under the constituent assembly; title: Education, science, and politics; title: The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science : rise and fall; title: The metric system; title: Science and the terror; title: Scientists at war; title: Thermidorean convention and directory; title: Bonaparte and the scientific community; title: Positivist science.