Chapter ID: CBB000066954

Argument and narrative in scientific writing (1991)

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Description Discusses in particular the Académie des Sciences's “History of plants” project (published as Denis Dodart, Mémoirs pour servir à l'histoire des plantes, 1731), especially the work concerned with the chemical analysis of plants. The project was begun in 1668 and lasted nearly 30 years.


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Authors & Contributors
McClellan, J. E.
Heffernan, Michael
Young, Kathryn A.
Terrall, Mary
Sturdy, David J.
Sellés García, Manuel A.
Journals
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Theoria (0495-4548)
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Science in Context
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
University of California Press
Boydell Press
Ashgate
Concepts
Science
Societies; institutions; academies
Professional qualifications; status; remuneration
Crafts and craftspeople
Science and society
International relations
People
Grandjean de Fouchy, Jean-Paul
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Steno, Nicolaus
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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