TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adkins,Gregory Matthew
TI  - The idea of the sciences in the French Enlightenment: a reinterpretation 
SN  - 978-1-61149-474-7
U1  - 509.4409033 23E
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Newark
PB  - University of Delaware Press
KW  - Science / France / History / 17th century
KW  - Science / France / History / 18th century
KW  - Science, Renaissance
KW  - Enlightenment / France
N1  - 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
ER  -