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From Knowledge to Power: The Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860–1939 - Rilegato

Paul, Harry W.

 
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The first full-scale treatment of a period of dramatic expansion in French science.

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France has played a pivotal role in the development of modern science. Especially striking and controversial has been the way in which the state has organized scientific endeavor. From Knowledge to Power is the first full-scale treatment of this dramatic expansion of French science between 1860 and 1939.

Contenuti

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From second empire to third republic: the great scientific mutation; 2. Fata morgana: positivism in nineteenth-century French biology; 3. Biology in the University: the success of marine biology leads but to paradigm lost; 4. The industrial connection of University science; 5. Science in agriculture: an increasing role in the new land of plenty; 6. Science in the catholic universities; 7. Scientific publication: the flood of monographs, books, and journals unleashed by the new research imperative in schools and societies; 8. Science funding in the twentieth century: laying the foundations of the science empire; 9. The denouement of the 1930s: a new scientific function for the state; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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