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
Beltrán, José
Collinge, Peter
Matteo Marcheschi
Charles-François Mathis
Émilie-Anne Pépy
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Archives of Natural History
Technology and Culture
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
White Horse Press
Università degli Studi
Presses Universitaires de France
Cornell University Press
Carocci Editore
Concepts
Natural history
Gardens
Botany
Societies; institutions; academies
Museums
Natural philosophy
People
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Smellie, William
Schomburgk, Robert Hermann
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
Maillet, Benoît de
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
19th century
Modern
21st century
20th century, late
Places
France
Scotland
Netherlands
Italy
Paris (France)
Institutions
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Jardin du roi (France)
Ecole supérieure de pharmacie de Paris
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Académie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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