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Author Gillispie, Charles Coulston.

Title Science and polity in France : the end of the old regime / Charles Coulston Gillispie.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]

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 Moore Stacks  Q127.F8 G53 2004    Available  ---
Description xii, 601 pages ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: Science and polity in France at the end of the Old Regime. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1980.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-578) and index.
Contents Science and politics under the constituent assembly -- Education, science, and politics -- The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science : rise and fall -- The metric system -- Science and the terror -- Scientists at war -- Thermidorean convention and directory -- Bonaparte and the scientific community -- Positivist science.
Subject Science -- France -- History.
Science.
France.
History.
Science and state -- France.
Science and state.
Added Title Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004003514
ISBN 0691118493 paperback alkaline paper