The greatest ambition of any moderately successful nineteenth-century French scientist was to become a member of the Academy of Sciences. Science Under Control is the first major study in any language of this elite institution, in a period that began with such influential figures as Laplace and Cuvier and extended to the time of Louis Pasteur and Henri Poincare. The book attempts to remove the veil of mystery and misunderstanding that has shrouded this key institution and its procedures. The French government exercised political, financial, and bureaucratic control over the Academy, and the...
The greatest ambition of any moderately successful nineteenth-century French scientist was to become a member of the Academy of Sciences. Science Unde...
Where do scientific terms come from' Why are they so similar in so many languages' How was the new nomenclature spread across the world' The Language of Science analyses the development of scientific vocabulary from its basic origins in everyday agricultural work, through to the need for a measurement system when it came to trading, to the scientific innovations of the seventeenth century and a subsequent period of consolidation in the eighteenth century. This is a period of great relevance in history of science and a strong focus of Crosland's work. The time between 1750 and 1800 saw many...
Where do scientific terms come from' Why are they so similar in so many languages' How was the new nomenclature spread across the world' The Language ...
