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The anatomy of a scientific institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803

Hahn, Roger

University of California Press

Preface Introduction 1. The Historical Setting: The Production of Saints' Lives 2. Word and Image: Narrative Problems in Pictorial Hagiography 3. Martyrs' Passions: Bearing Witness 4. The Virgin as Corpus: Bodily Offering 5. The Lives of Confessors: Bishops 6. The Lives of Confessors: Monks and Abbots 7. Lay and Royal Saints: Kings and Nobles 8. The Lives of Confessors: Nuns and Queens 9. The End of the Monastic Tradition and a New Beginning: Matthew Paris Epilogue: Narrative Innovation Appendix: List of Manuscripts Cited Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Often referred to as the Newton of France, Pierre Simon Laplace has been called the greatest scientist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He affirmed the stability of the solar system and offered a powerful hypothesis about its origins. A skillful mathematician and popular philosopher, Laplace also did pioneering work on probability theory, in devising a method of inverse probabilities associated with his classic formulation of physical determinism in the universe. With Lavoisier and several younger disciples, he also made decisive advances in chemistry and mathematical physics. 
 Roger Hahn, who has devoted years to researching Laplace's life, has compiled a rich archive of his scientific correspondence. In this compact biography, also based in part on unpublished private papers, Hahn follows Laplace's journey from would-be priest in the provinces to Parisian academician, popularizer of science during the French Revolution, religious skeptic, and supporter of Napoleon. By the end of his life, Laplace had become a well-rewarded dean of French science. 
 In this first full-length biography, Hahn illuminates the man in his historical setting. Elegantly written, Pierre Simon Laplace reflects a lifetime of thinking and research by a distinguished historian of science on the fortunes of a singularly important figure in the annals of Enlightenment science.

Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749–1827: A Determined Scientist

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Harvard University Press

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An entertaining and enlightening history of Britain's first zoo: the Tower of London menagerie. When King Henry III was given three leopards by his new brother-in-law, Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor, he ordered -- in desperation -- that they be sent to the Tower of London, his great fortress by the bank of the Thames. After all, where does one keep such things? Soon after the leopards' arrival in 1235 they were joined by an even greater wonder, a huge Norwegian polar bear which was encouraged to catch its own food from the river to save on upkeep expenses. And over the next 600 years - until the menagerie was closed down by Wellington in 1835, a few years before it became clear he had an interest in the soon-to-open London Zoo - the Tower played host to thousands more exotic creatures, all brought from overseas by returning explorers or VIP guests. Daniel Hahn's charming history of the first zoo explores the uses and abuses of the menagerie and the legion of Great and Good who came to behold its wonders, from William Blake, who came to look at the 'tygers', to John Wesley, who played his flute to the Tower lions in an attempt to establish if they had souls. Fascinating and insightful in equal measure, The Tower Menagerie is both an intriguing survey of our changing attitudes to animals and a hugely entertaining canter through six centuries of British history.

The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London

History

Europe

Simon&Schuster

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