Science and Polity in France : : The End of the Old Regime / / Charles Coulston Gillispie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gillispie, Charles Coulston,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (616 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on the Citations --; Part One. Institutions --; Chapter I. The State And Science --; Chapter II. Science and the State --; Part Two. Professions --; Chapter III. Science and Medicine --; CHAPTER IV. Scientists and Charlatans --; Part Three. Applications --; CHAPTER V. Trades and Agriculture --; CHAPTER VI. Industry and Invention --; CHAPTER VII. Engineering, Civil and Military --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400824618; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400824618
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Coulston Gillispie.

By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.