Article ID: CBB000850281

The Social Architect and the Myopic Mason: The Spatial Politics of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2007)

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle was both workplace and home to functionalist Georges Cuvier and morphologist Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, whose doctrinal differences became enmeshed with political dialogues regarding social reform. Surprisingly, the public not only viewed the arrangement of the collections in terms of the social platforms they were understood to be supporting, but critiqued the Muséum's buildings as expressions of their anatomical dispute. The Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 pushed these critiques forward, suggesting to some observers that true reform of the natural sciences would begin by reforming the Muséum's architectural program, thereby placing the goals of Comparative Anatomy in correct relationship to human progress.

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Authors & Contributors
Gould, Stephen Jay
Daszkiewicz, Piotr
Appel, Toby Anita
Andriamialisoa, Fanja
Pelosi, Giuseppe
Angotti, Franco
Concepts
Science and society
Comparative anatomy
Science and politics
Biology
Architecture
Engineering
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Renaissance
Medieval
20th century
17th century
Places
Italy
France
Tuscany (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
Great Britain
United States
Institutions
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Universität Zürich
Institut de France, Paris
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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