Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / Charles Coulston Gillispie.

By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the e...

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Main Author: Gillispie, Charles Coulston
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
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