Gillispie, Charles Coultson: Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books, January, 2005 by Arnold, Eric A., Jr.
Gillispie, Charles Coultson Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 664 pp., $80.00, ISBN 0-691-11541-9 Publication Date: July 2004
I think it only fair to start with an important caveat--though I am an historian of the French Revolution and Napoleon, I am neither an historian nor philosopher of science, but I certainly have lay knowledge and some understanding of the second area. The author of Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary, and Napoleonic Years, Charles C. Gillispie, now emeritus, enjoyed a long, distinguished, and extremely productive career at Princeton, where he occupied the Dayton-Stockton Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science. In fact, he established that...
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