The idea of the sciences in the French Enlightenment a reinterpretation / [Texte imprimé] :
G. Matthew Adkins
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, cop. 2014
- 1 vol. (X-163 p.) ; 24 cm
Bibliogr. p. 147-155
The Montmor Discourse : Samuel Sorbiére and the Foundation of the Royal Academy of Sciences -- The Esprits Supérieurs : Bernard de Fontenelle's academic eulogies -- Fear and loathing in the courts of Louis XV and Louis XVI : the sciences and the crisis of the monarchy from Voltaire to Turgot -- Struggle and radicalization on the eve of the revolution : Condorcet and the transformation of the idea of the sciences -- The coming of the tenth epoch : the idea of the sciences to the revolution of 1789
978-1-61149-474-7
Science / France / History / 17th century Science / France / History / 18th century Science, Renaissance Enlightenment / France