Patronage And Royal Science In Seventeenth Century France

Author : David S. Lux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501744235

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Patronage and Royal Science in Seventeenth-Century France by David S. Lux Pdf

A unique study in the culture of seventeenth-century French science, Patronage and Royal Science in Seventeenth-Century France focuses on the brief revolutionary period (1650–1680) that launched Europe's New Age of Academies. David S. Lux provides a lively account of one of the most intriguing scientific institutions in Louis XIV's France, the Academie de Physique de Caen, organized in 1662. Lux investigates why this promising institution with a talented membership and sympathetic private patrons foundered after it was provided royal support, finally to close its doors in 1672. Drawing upon hitherto unexploited archival materials, the author discovers the circumstances of one institution's failure, and develops a provocative new interpretation of the shift from privately funded to state-funded science in France during the second half of the seventeenth century. Lux provides a rare view of the everyday concerns of seventeenth-century science as it was practiced by those other than the immortals of the Scientific Revolution. Patronage and Royal Science in Seventeenth-Century France will interest sociologists of science and philosophers of science as well as historians, particularly those who work on early modern science and scientific institutions and French cultural history.

Author : Alice Stroup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520059492

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A Company of Scientists by Alice Stroup Pdf

Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Acad�mie Royale des Sciences. Blending externalist and internalist approaches, Stroup portrays the Academy in its political and intellectual contexts and also takes us behind the scenes, into the laboratory and into the meetings of a lively, contentious group of investigators. Founded in 1666 under Louis XIV, the Academy had a dual mission: to advance science and to glorify its patron. Creature of the ancien r�gime as well as of the scientific revolution, it depended for its professional prestige on the goodwill of monarch and ministers. One of the Academy's most ambitious projects was its illustrated encyclopedia of plants. While this work proceeded along old-fashioned descriptive lines, academicians were simultaneously adopting analogical reasoning to investigate the new anatomy and physiology of plants. Efforts to fund and forward competing lines of research were as strenuous then as now. We learn how academicians won or lost favor, and what happened when their research went wrong. Patrons and members shared in a new and different kind of enterprise that may not have resembled the Big Science of today but was nevertheless a genuine "company of scientists."

Author : Sharon Kettering
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195365108

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Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France by Sharon Kettering Pdf

A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces. During this period, the royal government of Paris gradually extended its sphere of control by taking power away from the powerful and potentially disloyal provincial governors and nobility and instead putting it in the hands of provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage. The new alliances between the Crown's ministers and loyal provincial elites functioned as political machines on behalf of the Crown, leading to smoother regional-national cooperation and foreshadowing the bureaucratic state that was to follow.

Author : David C. Lindberg,Katharine Park,Roy Porter,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521572446

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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science by David C. Lindberg,Katharine Park,Roy Porter,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.

Author : Alice Stroup
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0871697742

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Royal Funding of the Parisian Académie Royale Des Sciences During the 1690s by Alice Stroup Pdf

The scientific revolution of the 17th century engendered diverse & prolific offspring, among which were the scientific societies. The French Academie Royale des Sciences, founded in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, was the beneficiary of the most generous patronage of science known during the 17th century. It was an official, governmental expression of support for science rather than the independent, scholarly coterie characteristic of other contemporary scientific societies. As this study shows, the finances of the early Academy clarify the research & organization of the fledgling institution & the policies of its three ministerial protectors during the 17th century -- Colbert, Louvois, & Pontchartrain. Illustrations.

Author : Harcourt Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B4281506

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Scientific Organizations in Seventeenth Century France by Harcourt Brown Pdf

Author : Henry Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521892996

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Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France by Henry Phillips Pdf

A study of the involvement of the Catholic Church in the cultural life of France in the seventeenth century.

Author : Peter Barker,Roger Ariew
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813230689

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Revolution and Continuity by Peter Barker,Roger Ariew Pdf

This volume presents new work in history and historiography to the increasingly broad audience for studies of the history and philosophy of science. These essays are linked by a concern to understand the context of early modern science in its own context.

Author : David J. Sturdy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 085115395X

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Science and Social Status by David J. Sturdy Pdf

This comprehensive survey of the members of France's Academie des Sciences to the 1750s takes up the challenge to search for a way to connect history of science with social and cultural history at the bottom (the level of the scientists) rather than at the top (the level of philosophical debate about science and culture) (T.L. Hankins, In Defence of Biography: the Use of Biography in the History of Science, in History of Science, 17 (1979), 1-16). The book focuses primarily on the academicians themselves; and although it has much to say about the Academie as an institution, it does so in the light of the changing positions which the academicians occupied in the social hierarchy of early modern France. It explores the implications of those changes for the development of the Academie down to the mid-1700s, and it argues that throughout this period the the relationship which the Academie had with the Bourbon regime, and with French society in general, was governed governed to a large extent by the personal circumstances of the academicians.

Author : L. W. B. Brockliss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554445

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Calvet's Web by L. W. B. Brockliss Pdf

Calvet's Web is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley. Laurence Brockliss explores for the first time in detail the intellectual interests and relationships of a representative sample of the French Republic of Letters. He traces the destruction of the Republic during the Revolution, and its reconstruction, in different guise, under Napoleon. Calvet's Web is an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of knowledge, the history of collecting, and the history of the book. In addition, by examining the circle's attitude to the philosophes and their programme of material and moral progress, it offers a new picture of the relationship between the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment.

Author : Nicholas Dew
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199234844

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Orientalism in Louis XIV's France by Nicholas Dew Pdf

Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India. The Orientalist writers studied here produced books that would become sources used throughout the eighteenth century. Nicholas Dew places these scholars in their own context as members of the "republic of letters" in the age of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment.

Author : Sharon Kettering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025956827

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Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century France by Sharon Kettering Pdf

The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an overview of the scholarly literature and suggest that the obligatory reciprocity of the patron-client exchange was a defining characteristic. The third and fourth essays compare patronage relationships with kinship and friendship, while the following two focus on the patronage role of noblewomen. Professor Kettering then looks at the role of brokerage in state formation in early modern France, comparing this with other early modern societies. In the final section she explores the role of patronage in the religious wars of the late 16th century and in the civil war of the Fronde a half century later, and the ways in which it was affected by the changing lifestyles of the great nobles during the late 17th century.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521396999

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The Scientific Revolution in National Context by Roy Porter Pdf

The 'scientific revolution' of the sixteenth and seventeenth century continues to command attention in historical debate. Controversy still rages about the extent to which it was essentially a 'revolution of the mind', or how far it must also be explained by wider considerations. In this volume, leading scholars of early modern science argue the importance of specifically national contexts for understanding the transformation in natural philosophy between Copernicus and Newton. Distinct political, religious, cultural and linguistic formations shaped scientific interests and concerns differently in each European state and explain different levels of scientific intensity. Questions of institutional development and of the transmission of scientific ideas are also addressed. The emphasis upon national determinants makes this volume an interesting contribution to the study of the Scientific Revolution.

Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226398488

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The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin Pdf

This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review

Author : Anne Goldgar,Robert Frost
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047405443

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Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society by Anne Goldgar,Robert Frost Pdf

This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its comparative vision of the nature of institutions prompts a new interpretation of the role of institutions in society. With contributions by Florence Hsia, Ian Anders Gadd, Gayle K. Brunelle, Christopher Carlsmith, Susan E. Brown, Victor Morgan, Steve Hindle, Janelle Day Jenstad, Eve Rosenhaft, Reed Benhamou, James Shaw, Kristine Haugen.