Making Science Social

The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot, 1633–1642

Kathleen Wellman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2003
University of Oklahoma Press (Verlag)
978-0-8061-3502-1 (ISBN)

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Between 1633 and 1642, the French physician and philanthropist Théophraste Renaudot sponsored a series of public conferences in Paris. These conferences offered an open forum for wide-ranging discussions of a variety of topics, including science, medicine, gender, politics, and ethics. No matter the topic, participants consistently used scientific reasoning as a new standard of evidence. The conferences thus recast the rhetorical traditions of the Renaissance and prefigured the social sciences of the Enlightenment. They provide a candid snapshot of intellectual life at the dawn of the scientific revolution in France.In Making Science Social, Kathleen Wellman uses the published conference proceedings to develop a broadly conceived, revisionist interpretation of the intellectual history of seventeenth-century France and of the roots of modern culture and science.

Volume 6 in the Series for Science and Culture

Kathleen Wellman is Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. She is the author of La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment.ÿ

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2003
Zusatzinfo	4 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Oklahoma
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	806 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8061-3502-6 / 0806135026
ISBN-13	978-0-8061-3502-1 / 9780806135021
Zustand	Neuware