Wooden Eyes
Wooden Eyes

Author: Carlo Ginzburg

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780231119603

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Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.

Examen des esprits propres et naiz aux sciences: ou par merveilleux et utiles secrets, tirez tant de la vraye philosophie naturelle, que divine, est demonstree la difference des graces & habilitezqui se trouvent aux hommes, & à quell genre de lettres est convenable l'esprit de chacun: de maniere que quiconque lira icy attentivement, descouvrira la proprieté de son esprit, & sçavra eslire la science en laquelle il doit profiter le plus
Examen des esprits propres et naiz aux sciences: ou par merveilleux et utiles secrets, tirez tant de la vraye philosophie naturelle, que divine, est demonstree la difference des graces & habilitezqui se trouvent aux hommes, & à quell genre de lettres est convenable l'esprit de chacun: de maniere que quiconque lira icy attentivement, descouvrira la proprieté de son esprit, & sçavra eslire la science en laquelle il doit profiter le plus

Author: Juan Huarte

Publisher:

Published: 1619

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13:

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Minerva's Message
Minerva's Message

Author: Martin S. Staum

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1996-10-17

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0773566244

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In theory the CMPS was set up to enshrine the human and social studies that were at the heart of Enlightenment culture. Staum illustrates, however, that the Institute helped transform key ideas of the Enlightenment in order to maintain civil rights while upholding social stability, and that the social and political assumptions on which it was based affected notions of social science. He traces the careers of individual members and the factions within the Institute, arguing that the discord within the CMPS reflects the unravelling of Enlightenment culture. Minerva's Message presents a valuable overview of the intellectual life of the period and brings together new evidence about the social sciences in their nascent period.

A Company of Scientists
A Company of Scientists

Author: Alice Stroup

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780520059498

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Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Acad�mie Royale des Sciences. Blending externalist and internalist approaches, Stroup portrays the Academy in its political and intellectual contexts and also takes us behind the scenes, into the laboratory and into the meetings of a lively, contentious group of investigators. Founded in 1666 under Louis XIV, the Academy had a dual mission: to advance science and to glorify its patron. Creature of the ancien r�gime as well as of the scientific revolution, it depended for its professional prestige on the goodwill of monarch and ministers. One of the Academy's most ambitious projects was its illustrated encyclopedia of plants. While this work proceeded along old-fashioned descriptive lines, academicians were simultaneously adopting analogical reasoning to investigate the new anatomy and physiology of plants. Efforts to fund and forward competing lines of research were as strenuous then as now. We learn how academicians won or lost favor, and what happened when their research went wrong. Patrons and members shared in a new and different kind of enterprise that may not have resembled the Big Science of today but was nevertheless a genuine "company of scientists."