Fox Carl.ABAA
The culture of science in France 1700-1900.
1992BBL1368Aldershot Hampshire Great Britain Brookfield VT:: Variorum; Ashgate Pub. Co. 1992. 1992. 8vo. xii various pagination. Teal cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Fine. ISBN: 0860783391 CONTENTS: Part 1 Patronage and institutions: scientific enterprise and the patronage of research in France 1800-1870-- the "Savant" confronts his peers - scientific societies in France 1815-1914-- learning politics and polite culture in provincial France - the "Societes Savantes" in the 19th century-- the early history of the society zoologique de France-- science industry and the social order in Mulhouse 1798-1871-- from Corfu to Caledonia - the early travels of Charles Dupin 1808-1920. Part 2: The physics of heat: the science of fire - J.H. Lambert and the study of heat-- the background to the discovery of Dulong and Petit's law-- the rise and fall of Laplacian physics-- the fire piston and its origins in Europe-- the challenge of a new technology - theorists and the high-pressure steam engine before 1824-- Watt's expansive principle in the work of Sadi Carnot and Nicolas Clement. source: Nielsen Book Data. SUMMARY: This volume treats a remarkable period in the history of science in France. The articles in the first of its two sections concerned with patronage and institutions explore the structures that fostered research and the diffusion of scientific and technological knowledge not only in the great institutions under state control but also in the very different world of the independent academies and the many scientific and industrial societies in Paris and the provinces. The second section focuses on the physical sciences in particular the physics of heat and the imponderable fluids and their relations with experimental and technological practice. It contains studies of figures of outstanding importance in the history of French science including J.H. Lambert P.S. de Laplace and Sadi Carnot. Taken together the articles provide a coherent picture of a nation's science over a period of a century developing a methodological perspective that unites cognitive and social considerations. Variorum; Ashgate Pub. Co., (1992). hardcover books
