LEADER 00000cam a2200637Mi 4500 001 ocn890530787 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040654.4 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 140913s2014 nju o 000 0 eng d 020 9781400865314|q(electronic book) 020 140086531X|q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)890530787 037 22573/ctt7wgmk8|bJSTOR 040 EBLCP|beng|epn|cEBLCP|dN$T|dJSTOR|dOCLCF|dOCLCQ|dDEBSZ 043 e-fr--- 049 RIDW 050 4 Q127.F8 072 7 SCI|x034000|2bisacsh 072 7 HIS013000|2bisacsh 072 7 SCI034000|2bisacsh 082 04 509.44|223 090 Q127.F8 100 1 Gillispie, Charles Coulston.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n80090192 245 10 Science and Polity in France :|bthe Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. 264 1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c2014. 300 1 online resource (764 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 505 0 COVER; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; CHAPTER I. Science and Politics under the Constituent Assembly; 1. Science and Politics in 1789; 2. Bailly and the Constituent Assembly; 3. Lavoisier and the Arsenal; 4. Vicq d'Azyr and the Reform of Medicine; 5. Condorcet and Truth in Politics; 6. Condorcet, Bailly, and the Governance of Paris; 7. Political Economy; 8. Varennes and the Champ-de-Mars; CHAPTER II. Education, Science, and Politics; 1. Scientists in the Legislative Assembly; 2. The Condorcet Plan for National Education; 3. Talleyrand's Educational Proposal. 505 8 4. The Educational Legacy of the Old Regime5. The Political Setting; 6. The Convention; 7. Education and Science; CHAPTER III. The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science: Rise and Fall; 1. Natural History and Theoretical Science; 2. The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle; 3. The Academy of Science in the Revolutionary Climate; 4. Artisans and Inventors; 5. The Last Year of the Academy; CHAPTER IV. The Metric System; 1. Background; 2. Proposals; 3. Methods and Instruments; 4. Operations in the Field; 5. The Provisional Meter; CHAPTER V. Science and the Terror. 505 8 1. Terror and Expropriation2. The Republican Calendar; 3. The Observatory of Paris; 4. The Collège de France; 5. Individual Destinies; 6. The Calvary of Condorcet; CHAPTER VI. Scientists at War; 1. The Monge Connection; 2. Weaponry; 3. The Mobilization of Scientists; 4. Munitions and Guns; 5. Inventions; 6. Natural History and Conquest; 7. Effects of Wartime: Science and the State; CHAPTER VII. Thermidorean Convention and Directory; 1. Institutionalization of French Science, 1794-1804; 2. Institut de France, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, and Bureau des Longitudes. 505 8 3. Completion of the Metric System4. The École Normale de l'an III; 5. The École Polytechnique; 6. The École de Santé and Clinical Medicine; CHAPTER VIII. Bonaparte and the Scientific Community; 1. Monge in Italy, 1796-1798; 2. The Egyptian Expedition; 3. The Idéologues and 18 Brumaire; 4. The Consulate, 1799-1804; 5. Napoleon and Science; CHAPTER IX. Positivist Science; 1. Discipline Formation; 2. Comparative Anatomy; 3. Experimental Physiology; 4. Mathematical Physics; 5. Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y. 520 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 and elegantly written sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to moderniz. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Science|zFrance|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh2008111327 650 0 Science and state|zFrance.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities /subjects/sh2010112159 650 7 Science.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1108176 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Science and state.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1108536 651 7 France.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204289 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 776 08 |iPrint version:|aGillispie, Charles Coulston.|tScience and Polity in France : The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.|dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |z9780691115412 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=845340|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160607|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID