Book ID: CBB000110478

Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution (2000)

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Spary, E. C. (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xvi + 321 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Discusses the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that changed the Jardin du Roi into the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle


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Review Osborne, Michael A. (2003) Review of "Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 98). unapi

Review Ogilvie, Brian W. (2002) Review of "Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 122). unapi

Essay Review Shank, J. B. (2005) The Sciences in Old Regime France: A Review of Recent Scholarship. French Historical Studies (pp. 661-695). unapi

Essay Review McClellan, James E., III (2003) Patronage versus Institutions. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 324-329). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
McClellan, James E., III
Bevilacqua, Fabio
Burckhardt, Richard W., Jr.
Bycroft, Michael
Cohen, Claudine
Daszkiewicz, Piotr
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Archives of Natural History
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Book History
French Historical Studies
History of Science
Publishers
Carocci Editore
Cornell University Press
Le Moniteur
Presses Universitaires de France
Università degli Studi
White Horse Press
Concepts
Natural history
Gardens
Societies; institutions; academies
Botany
Collectors and collecting
Earth sciences
People
Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore
Chirac, Pierre
Duverney, Joseph-Guichard
Gillispie, Charles Coulston
Maillet, Benoît de
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
19th century
21st century
Modern
20th century, late
Places
France
Paris (France)
Italy
Netherlands
Scotland
Institutions
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Jardin du roi (France)
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Académie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
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