Making Science Social
Subtitle: The Conferences of Theophraste Renaudot, 1633-1642 (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory. Series for Science and Culture, V. 6.)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780806135021
Subjects: Science; Paris (France); History; History: World; World - General; Renaudot, Thâeophraste,; Contributions in science; Renaudot, Theophraste; France; 1586-1653; 17th century; Intellectual life
First sentence: THEOPHRASTE RENAUDOT'S PREFACE TO THE PUBLISHED VOLUME of the first hundred conferences held at the Bureau d'Adresse explicitly heralds their unusual character.
Description: "In Making Science Social, Kathleen Wellman uses the published conference proceedings to develop a broadly conceived, revisionist interpretation of the intellectual history of seventeenth-century France and of the roots of modern culture and science."--BOOK JACKET.