Science and polity in France the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / [electronic resource] :
Charles Coulston Gillispie.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004.
- viii, 751 p. ; 24 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-716) and index.
Science and politics under the constituent assembly -- Education, science, and politics -- The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science : rise and fall -- The metric system -- Science and the terror -- Scientists at war -- Thermidorean convention and directory -- Bonaparte and the scientific community -- Positivist science.