Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years

by Charles Coulston Gillispie

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691115419

ISBN13:9780691115412

Release Date:July 2004

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:752 Pages

Weight:2.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"

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