Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot, 1633-1642University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 - 461 Seiten Between 1633 and 1642, the French physician and philanthropist Théophraste Renaudot sponsored a series of public conferences in Paris. These conferences offered an open forum for wide-ranging discussions of a variety of topics, including science, medicine, gender, politics, and ethics. No matter the topic, participants consistently used scientific reasoning as a new standard of evidence. The conferences thus recast the rhetorical traditions of the Renaissance and prefigured the social sciences of the Enlightenment. They provide a candid snapshot of intellectual life at the dawn of the scientific revolution in France. In Making Science Social, Kathleen Wellman uses the published conference proceedings to develop a broadly conceived, revisionist interpretation of the intellectual history of seventeenth-century France and of the roots of modern culture and science. Volume 6 in the Series for Science and Culture |
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CHAPTER TWO The Context of the Conferences | 22 |
Introduction | 59 |
CHAPTER THREE Talismans Incubi Divination | 68 |
CHAPTER FOUR Whether the Heavens be Liquid or Solid | 106 |
CHAPTER FIVE Of Physiognomy Smallpox and the Bezoard | 156 |
FROM SCIENCE TO HUMAN SCIENCE | 197 |
CHAPTER SIX Souls Passions Learning and Language | 208 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Covetousness Friendship and Interest | 248 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Of Censorship Sedition and Luxury | 275 |
CHAPTER NINE The Extravagance of Women | 325 |
toward the Enlightenment | 367 |
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Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France Michael R. Lynn Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |