The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France

How scientific discoveries and practice were integrated into nineteenth-century French culture and thought.

Winner of the Sarton Medal for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement of the History of Science Society

There has been a tendency to view science in nineteenth-century France as the exclusive territory of the nation’s leading academic centers and the powerful Paris-based administrators who controlled them. Ministries and the great savants and institutions of the capital seem to have defined the...