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Science in the French revolution
Author(s) -
Gillispie Charles Coulston
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830040108
Subject(s) - enthusiasm , ideology , the republic , hostility , natural (archaeology) , political science , sociology , economic history , social science , epistemology , law , philosophy , history , psychology , social psychology , politics , archaeology
Following the French Revolution, scientists were pressed into the service of the Republic on a scale theretofore unequaled. Yet the learned academies were abolished by the Republic. There was enthusiasm about natural history, but the more abstract, theoretical, particularly mathematical, aspects of natural science were seen as incompatible with the ideology of the Revolution. The complex mixture of adulation and hostility on the part of the Republic towards science is here examined.