Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
- Gillispie, Charles Coulston
- Date:
- [2004], ©2004
- Books
- Online
Online resources
About this work
Publication/Creation
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2004], ©2004.
Physical description
viii, 751 pages ; 24 cm
Series
Contents
Science and politics under the constituent assembly -- Education, science, and politics -- The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science : rise and fall -- The metric system -- Science and the terror -- Scientists at war -- Thermidorean convention and directory -- Bonaparte and the scientific community -- Positivist science.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-716) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.