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Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700–c.1870
This second collection of studies by Maurice Crosland has as a first theme the differences in the style and organisation of scientific activity in Britain and France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Science was more closely controlled in France, notably by the Paris Academy of Sciences, and the work of provincial amateurs much less prominent than in Britain. The most dramatic change in any branch of science during this period was in chemistry, largely through the work of Lavoisier and his colleagues, the focus of several articles here, and the dominance of this group caused considerable resentment outside France, not least by Joseph Priestley. The issue of authority in science emerges a...
Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, C.1700–c.1870
This second collection of studies by Maurice Crosland has as a first theme the differences in the style and organisation of scientific activity in Britain and France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Science was more closely controlled in France, notably by the Paris Academy of Sciences, and the work of provincial amateurs much less prominent than in Britain. The most dramatic change in any branch of science during this period was in chemistry, largely through the work of Lavoisier and his colleagues, the focus of several articles here, and the dominance of this group caused considerable resentment outside France, not least by Joseph Priestley. The issue of authority in science emerges a...
Gay-Lussac
This is the first work to examine critically both the scientific work and the man behind it, and as well as providing the historian of science with a comprehensive account of the life and work of a major nineteenth-century scientist, the book will also be of value to the social and economic historian.
Science Under Control
This book examines French science in the 19th Century under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences.
Historical Studies in the Language of Chemistry
Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, this volume covers language of alchemy, early chemical terminology, systematic nomenclature, chemical symbolism, and language of organic chemistry. "Authoritative." ? Isis. 1962 edition.
Studies in the Culture of Science in France and Britain Since the Enlightenment
A wide range of the author's previously published papers in the history of science is brought together in this book.The articles, which are mainly concerned with the 18th and 19th centuries, are arranged in three sections: science in the Enlightenment period; science in an institutional context; national and international science. Some of the papers present a broad perspective, others are of a more detailed nature, drawing on the archives of the Paris Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London. An original interpretation of the career of Priestley is followed by a historiographical article on Lavoisier. Papers with a more social approach include subjects such as the professionalisation of science, peer review, and science and war. It is argued that science became a profession in France long before it did in Britain. France also created an important precedent in the academic world in demanding publications of research as credentials.
The Science of Matter
The Science of Matter strikes a balance between the two basic sciences of matter, physics and chemistry, by drawing on popularized secondary accounts and actual words and symbols used by scientists to give the reader a sense of the contributions which modern science has made to the study of matter. With selections spanning the classical age to the twentieth century, this book offers a clear introduction to the evolution of modern science.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science
The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.
