Science, Enlightenment and Revolution : selected papers, 1976-2019 /: selected papers, 1976-2019. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: Dorinda Outram.
• Authors: Outram, Dorinda
• Contents: Introduction 1. ‘Education and Politics in Piedmont, 1796-1814’, Historical Journal, 19 (1976) 611-33. 2. ‘The Language of Natural Power: The Eloges of Georges Cuvier and the Public Language of Nineteenth-Century Science’, History of Science, 16 (1978) 153-178. 3. ‘Politics and Vocation: French Science 1793-1830’, British Journal for the History of Science, 13 (1980) 27-43. 4. ‘The Ordeal of Vocation: The Paris Academy of Sciences and the French Revolutionary Terror, 1793-1795’, History of Science 21 (1983), 251-73. 5. ‘Before Objectivity: Wives, Patronage and Cultural Reproduction in early Nineteenth-Century French Science’, in Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram, (eds.), Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science 1789-1972 (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987), 19-30. 6. "‘Le langage mâle de la vertu’: Women and the Discourse of the French Revolution’, in Peter Burke and Roy Porter (eds.), The Social History of Language (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) 120-135. 7. ‘Life-paths: Autobiography, Science, and the French Revolution’, in Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo (eds.), Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 85-102. 8. ‘New Spaces in Natural History’, in N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary (eds.), Cultures of Natural History (Cambridge and New York, 1996) 249-265. 9. ‘On Being Perseus: New Knowledge, Dislocation, and Enlightenment Exploration’, in David N Livingstone and Charles WJ Withers (eds.), Geography and Enlightenment (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1999), 281-294. 10. ‘The Enlightenment our Contemporary’, in William Clark, Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer, (eds.), The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1999) 32-40. 11. ‘Heavenly Bodies and Logical Minds: John Banville’s Astronomical Novels’, in David Attis and Charles Mollan (eds.), Science and Irish Culture: Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland (Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society, 2004), 19-25. 12. ‘Negating the Natural: or why Historians Deny Irish Science’, in David Attis and Charles Mollan (eds.), Science and Irish Culture: Why the History of Science Matters in Ireland (Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society, 2004), 27-31. 13. ‘Enlightenment Struggles’, in C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin (eds.), Interpreting Early Modern Europe, (London and New York: Routledge, 2019) 417-38.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 509.44; Science -- France -- History; Enlightenment -- France; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; France -- Civilization -- 1789-1830
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000441338; 9781000441284; 9781003038085
• Related ISBNs: 9780367481193
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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