A company of scientists : botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences / Alice Stroup
1990, 1st edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425884
ISBN: 0520059492
Physical description; xv, 387 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and index. Contents; The setting -- Portrait of an institution -- The institution and its patronage -- Members and protectors -- Models for a company of scientists -- The material benefits of membership: Pensions and quarters -- Research subventions and ministerial control -- Botanical research at the academy -- The natural history of plants: Rival conceptions -- Justifying the chemical analysis of plants -- Ministerial intervention and an unexpected outcome -- Analogical reasoning: The model -- Analogical reasoning: The theory -- Chemical and mechanical explanation of physiological processes -- The new instruments and botany -- The academy and the larger community -- Medical motivations and social responsibility -- Scientific Paris at the end of the century -- Academicians and the larger scientific community -- The effects of patronage -- The academy as an instrument of the crown. Subjects; Académie des sciences (France) History. Académie des sciences (France). 1600-1699. Botany Research France Paris History 17th century. Botany France History. Botany Research France Paris History. Botany History Research 17th century Paris France. Physical Sciences & Mathematics. Sciences - General. Science France Societies, etc. History. Botany.
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