Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years /

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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Author / Creator: Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
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