Science and social status : the members of the Academie des sciences, 1666-1750

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Science and social status : the members of the Academie des sciences, 1666-1750

David J. Sturdy

Boydell Press, 1995

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Bibliography: p. 433-448

Includes index

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This comprehensive survey of the members of the Academie des Sciences to the 1750s takes up the challenge to search for `a way to connect history of science with social and cultural history at the bottom [the level of the scientists] rather than at the top [the level of philosophical debate about science and culture]' (T.L. Hankins, `In Defence of Biography: the Use of Biography in the History of Science', in History of Science, 17 [1979], 1-16). The book focuses primarily on the academicians themselves; and although it has much to say about the Academie as an institution, it does so in the light of the changing positions which the academicians occupied in the social hierarchy of early modern France. It explores the implications of those changes for the development of the Academie down to the mid-1700s, and it argues that throughout this period the relationship which the Academie had with the Bourbonregime and with French society in general, was governed to alarge extent by the personal circumstances of the academicians. Science and Social Status complements other major works dealing with the Academie, but differs from them in content, sources and method, and adopts a perspective on the Academie which is of relevance to historians of science and social historians of early modern France alike.DAVID J. STURDYis Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster.

目次

  • Part 1 The 1660s in context: the scientific context
  • the political context
  • the context of patronage. Part 2 The foundation of the Academie des Sciences and its first: Colbert and the foundation of the academie in 1666
  • the founder members of the Academie des Sciences - those with backgrounds in law
  • Roberval and Duclos
  • the majority - academicians in their 40s
  • the Eleves
  • the founder members in retrospect. Part 3 Members of the academie, 1666-1698: the early years of the academie
  • the members appointed 1669-1698 - the period to 1683
  • dynasticism in the academie - the La Hire family
  • the members appointed by Louvois, 1683-1691
  • Pontchartrain and membership to 1698 - the first phase - Bignon, Homberg and Tournefort
  • Pontchartrain and membership to 1698 the second phase
  • the formation, social status and mentality of an academician, 1666-1699. Part 4 The reform of 1699: principles and statutes, 1699
  • the academicians of 1699 - the mathematical sciences, the life sciences
  • Parisian apothecaries in the academie of 1699 - Gilles-Francois Boulduc and the Geoffroy family
  • the members of 1699 in context. Part 5 The academie after 1700: the secretaries and Bignon
  • academicians in the mathematical sciences, 1702-1750
  • academicians in the life sciences, 1701-1750.

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