Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700-c.1870

Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700-c.1870

Crosland, Maurice

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2019

288

Mole

Inglês

9781138375109

15 a 20 dias

530

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Contents: Preface; Supplementary bibliography. Part I Institutions: Relationships between the Royal Society and the Academie des Sciences in the late 18th century; The Copley Medal: the establishment of a reward system in the Royal Society, 1731-1839; The officiers de sante of the French Revolution: a case study in the changing language of medicine; Lavoisier, the 2 French Revolutions and the 'imperial despotism of oxygen'; A science empire in Napoleonic France;The organisation of chemistry in 19th-century France; Popular science and the arts: challenges to cultural authority in France under the Second Empire. Part II Practice: Early laboratories c.1600-c.1800 and the location of experimental science;'Slippery substances': some practical and conceptual problems in the understanding of gases in the pre-Lavoisier era; Chemistry: 18th century; Research schools of chemistry from Lavoisier to Wurtz; Difficult beginnings in experimental science at Oxford: the Gothic chemistry laboratory; Index.
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