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Gillispie, Charles Coulston was born on August 6, 1918 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Raymond Livingston and Virginia Lambert (Coulston) Gillispie.
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By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.
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By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.
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This vividly illustrated book introduces the reader to the brothers Montgolfier, who launched the first hotair balloon in Annonay, France on 4 June 1783. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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(First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes th...)
First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches which, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over On the Origin of Species was nothing new: earlier discoveries in science (particularly geology) had presented major challenges, not only to the literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, but even more seriously to the traditional idea that Providence controls the order of nature with an eye to fulfilling divine purpose. A new Foreword by Nicolaas A. Rupke places this book in the context of the last forty-five years of scholarship in the social history of evolutionary thought.
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From Galileo's analysis of motion to the theories of evolution and relativity, Charles Gillispie takes us on a masterly tour of the world of scientific ideas. The history of modern science is portrayed here as the development of objectivity through the study of nature. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in the world on the history of science. From start to finish--Galileo to Einstein--Gillispie introduced the students to the key ideas and individuals in science. The Edge of Objectivity arose out of this course. It must have been a lively class. The Edge of Objectivity is pointed, opinionated, and selective. Even at six hundred pages, the book is, as the title suggests, an essay. Gillispie is unafraid to rate Mendel higher than Darwin, Maxwell above Faraday. Full of wry turns of phrase, the book effectively captures people and places. And throughout the book, Gillispie pushes an argument. He views science as the progressive development of more objective, detached, mathematical ways of viewing the world, and he orchestrates his characters and ideas around this theme. In the forty-five years since the publication of The Edge of Objectivity, historians of science have established a full-fledged discipline. They have focused increasingly on the social context of science rather than its internal dynamics, and they have frequently viewed science more as a threatening instance of power than as an accumulation of knowledge. Nevertheless, Gillispie's book remains a sophisticated, fast-moving, idiosyncratic account of the development of scientific ideas over four hundred years, by one of the founding intellects in the history of science.
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From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural, political, and technical factors that encouraged scientific productivity on the eve of the Revolution. In the present monumental and elegantly written sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to modernization both of politics and science. In politics, argues Gillispie, the central feature of this modernization was conversion of subjects of a monarchy into citizens of a republic in direct contact with a state enormously augmented in power. To the scientific community, attainment of professional status was what citizenship was to all Frenchmen in the republic proper, namely the license to self-governance and dignity within the respective contexts. Revolutionary circumstances set up a resonance between politics and science since practitioners of both were future oriented in their outlook and scornful of the past. Among the creations of the First French Republic were institutions providing the earliest higher education in science. From them emerged rigorously trained people who constituted the founding generation in the disciplines of mathematical physics, positivistic biology, and clinical medicine. That scientists were able to achieve their ends was owing to the expertise they provided the revolutionary and imperial authorities in education, medicine, warfare, empire building, and industrial technology.
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Gillispie, Charles Coulston was born on August 6, 1918 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Raymond Livingston and Virginia Lambert (Coulston) Gillispie.
AB, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1940. Master of Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1942. Doctor of Science (honorary), Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1971.
Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1949. Doctor of Science (honorary), Lafayette College, 2001.
Teaching fellow, tutor history, Harvard University, 1946-1947; faculty, Princeton University, 1947-1987; professor of history science, Princeton University, 1959-1967; Shelby Cullom Davis professor European history, Princeton University, 1967-1973; Dayton-Stockton professor of history, Princeton University, 1973-1987; professor emeritus, Princeton University, since 1987; department chairman history, Princeton University, 1971-1973; director program in history and philosophy of science, Princeton University, 1960-1966, 76-80; A.J. Balfour professor of history science, Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1972. Associate director studies Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1980-1987.
(First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes th...)
( From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific ...)
( From Galileo's analysis of motion to the theories of ev...)
( From Galileo's analysis of motion to the theories of ev...)
( This vividly illustrated book introduces the reader to ...)
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Board managers Bach Choir, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1976-1980. Served to captain C.W.S. Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, British Academy (correspondent).
Member History Science Society (council 1952-1955, 59-60, president 1964-1966), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Académie Internationale d' Histoire des Sciences (vice president 1965-1968), New York Academy of Sciences (honorary life member), American Philosophical Society, Princeton Club (New York City), Nassau Club Princeton, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Emily Ramsdell Clapp, January 29, 1949.