Paris Savant
Release on 2019-06-14 | by Bruno Belhoste

On the advice of Vicq d'Azyr Bertier decided to transform this professional school into an institution of higher education. For this purpose, new chairs were given to members of the Royal Society of Medicine: to Vicq d'Azyr for ...

Paris Savant
  • Author: Bruno Belhoste
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780199382545
  • Category: Paris (France)
  • Page: 328
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Novelist Honoré de Balzac was the first to use the phrase "Paris savant" to refer to the dynamic Parisian scientific and intellectual community of the late 18th century. The Academy of Sciences was highly active during this time, and was a meeting place for intellectual and scientific elite, who worked together toward the diffusion of scientific knowledge into Parisian society. The Royal Observatory was a headquarters for French astronomy, as well as the great geodesic project to map all of France. The Royal Mint hosted courses in chemistry and mining, and the Arsenal near the Bastille housed the laboratory of Lavoisier, the most celebrated chemist of the age. This book is the English translation of Bruno Belhoste's Paris Savant: Encounters in Enlightenment Science, originally published in France in 2011. Belhoste discusses how the Parisian scientific community came into its important place in the French Enlightenment, focusing on the Academy of Sciences. Chapters cover subjects such as what role Parisian geography played in the movement, the contributions of French scientists to industrial and urban improvement, and how the Academy of Sciences clashed with the revolutionary crisis, resulting in its closing in 1793. The translation includes a prologue for English readers.

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