Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime

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Price
$101.20
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publish Date
Pages
616
Dimensions
6.14 X 9.21 X 1.24 inches | 1.87 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780691118499

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About the Author
Charles Coulston Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, where he founded the program in History and Philosophy of Science in 1960. His books include The Edge of Objectivity; Lazare Carnot Savant; The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation; Pierre-Simon Laplace: A Life in Exact Science; and Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime (all Princeton). He was also the editor of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (16 volumes, 1970-1980). In 1997, he was awarded the Balzan Prize in the History and Philosophy of Science.
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"Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science Society"
"[A] learned and absorbing book. . . . In both conception and execution, it is a work on the grand scale."-- "Nature"
"This is an authoritative book by one of our leading historians of science. . . . Written in a stately style and rich in archival and documentary evidence, it will be a source of pleasure and profit to students of French science for many years to come."-- "Science"
"An enormously elaborate interweaving of many threads of detail, political, scientific, personal. . . . Its expression is fluent and vivid. It is a very scholarly book, but it is no arid presentation of past events, it is alive. . . . This is history as it is rarely written, and the book is wonderful."-- "Quarterly Review of Biology"