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Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime

Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime

Charles Coulston Gillispie

This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution.
Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific ...

Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific ...

Charles Coulston Gillispie

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.
Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

Charles Coulston Gillispie

This unique book shows how the two Carnots influenced each other in their work in the fields of mechanics and thermodynamics, and how future generations of scientists have further benefited from their work.
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of ...

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of ...

Jack Repcheck

MartinJ. S. Rudwick, “Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart,” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970–1978). MartinJ. S. Rudwick, “Louis-Constant Prevost,” in Dictionary of ...
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science

Charles Coulston Gillispie

Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. A special word of thanks is due to Jack Repcheck, editor at Princeton University Press, whose idea it was to republish this monographic article as a scientific biography in its own right.
A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles ...

A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles ...

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New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.
Register - University of California

Register - University of California

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... Washington Corning Ratharine Graydon Biedenbach Samuel John Binsacca * Edgar Dickinson Boal Ashley Colt Browne Charles Orville Butler *George Griffing Byrne, Jr. *Harold Pliny Cass John Morrison Cooper *John Thomas Coulston ...
Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes

Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes

Louise Robbins

Pasteur:The History of a Mind.Trans. Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges. 1920. Reprint, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1973. Geison, Gerald L.“Louis Pasteur.” In The Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Charles C. Gillispie, vol. 10:350–416.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Letters of the king of England

Letters of the king of England

Halliwell-Phillipps

Charles I. to Richard Browne 1643 343 Charles I. to prince Maurice . . , 1643 343 Charles I. to the mayor of Newbury 1643 344 Charles I. to the queen 1644 344 Charles I. to general Goring 1644 145 Charles I. to the earl of Newcastle . , 1644  ...
Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

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Charles and I unpacked the root of the problem in the following exchange: Cheryl : Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: What do you think caused the problem with the [first story of reform—the state ...
The Boston Directory

The Boston Directory

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Hunt Charles. ship and freight broker, 156 State, bds. 65 Hancock Hunt Charles. h. Nep. av. near Chickatawbut, Nep. Hunt Charles A. boards 17 Green. Charlestown Hunt Charles А. machinist, house 54 (lates Hunt Charles E. clerk, 60 11igh,h ...
The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

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D Blanchard, Charles 30th Inf. Co.G Blanchard, Charles 73rd Inf. Co.A Blanchard , Charles 77th Inf. Co.A Blanchard, Charles 89th Inf. Co.I Sgt. Blanchard, Chas. 92nd Inf. Co.D Blanchard, Charles 123rd Inf. Co.D Blanchard, Charles 153rd Inf.
John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

Charles W. Maynard

His father, also named John Charles, was from France. Anne Beverley Whiting, John Charles's mother, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Whiting of Richmond, Virginia. When John Charles was only five years old, his father died.
The genuine works of Charles Cotton

The genuine works of Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton. SCAR RONID ES; OR, Virgil Travestie. A MOCK-POEM In Imitation of the FOURTH BOOK O F FIRGIL's Æneis, In Englifo Burlesque, By CHARLES COTTON, Esq; The Fourteenth Edition. .f v. '-.-' a .a J V ' -'. .1.
The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

In the year 1795, Charles Lamb resided with his father, mother, and sister, in lodgings at No. ... whom he had faithfully served for many years ; Charles's salary , which, being that of a clerk of three years' standing in the India House, could have ...
Papers by Command

Papers by Command

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIAM called. Examined by the Chairman. Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIAM. Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIA.M. Mr. CHARLES. 6 February 1913.] [Continued. the platform. As he wiped the commutator with Borne ...
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Mr. CHARLEs PIERCE MERRIAM called. Examined by the Chairman. Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIAM. Mr. CHARLEs PIERCE MERRIAM. Mr. CHARLEs . 6 February 1913.] the platform. As he wiped the commutator with some cotton waste a ...
A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles ...

A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles ...

Charles Arnould Hentz

The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D. Charles Arnould Hentz Steven M. Stowe. "Readers of Charles Hentz's diary and autobiography will find themselves immersed in the world of the mid-nineteenth-century South as seen ...
Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors, County of Orange, ...

Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors, County of Orange, ...

Orange County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors

... Wilson 1897 Charles H. Weygant 1898 Charles H. Weygand 1899 Charles H. Weygant 1900 Charles H. Weygant 1901 Charles H. Weygant 1902 Charles H. Weygant 1903 John Templeton 1904 John Templeton 1905 John Templeton 1906 ...
Descendants of Cornelius Comegys in North America

Descendants of Cornelius Comegys in North America

Elma Fraser Perry

341 Charles Henry (C 1811823) (1869-1920).....232, 239 CharlesL ( C1311172541)(1904- ) . ... 158 Charles Page (C 1311172531) (1898-1939) . ... 317 Charles Wesley (C 13542237) (1869-1952) 110, 150, 151 Charles Wesley ( UCF [26]) .
Memorial to My Honored Kindred

Memorial to My Honored Kindred

Charles William Darling

Abigail Darling, b. 1746, d. 1818. Samuel Darling, b. 1 751, d. 1842. Charles Chauncey, b. 1747, d. 1823. Clarinda Ely, b. 1759, d. 1847. Charles Chauncey Darling=Adeline Eliza Dana b. 1799, d. 1887. I b. 1798, d. 1882. Charles W. Darling ...
A Short and Easie Method with the Jews ... By Charles ...

A Short and Easie Method with the Jews ... By Charles ...

Charles LESLIE (M.A.)

Charles LESLIE (M.A.). 5. That promisei concerning the temple of Solomon, that God's name should be there for ever, and perpetually, cannot be verified, but as it was a type of the Christian church, which shall I~ last for ever. For types, as ...
Mexican American Literature

Mexican American Literature

Charles M. Tatum

Charles M. Tatum. Mexican American LITERATURE General Editor Charles Tatum Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers Charles Tatum (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) is Head of Orlando San Diego Chicago Dallas.
Charles Warren Eaton

Charles Warren Eaton

Charles Warren Eaton

See Charles Teaze Clark, Charles Warren Eaton (Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 1980), with an essay by Maureen C. O'Brien. 2 See selected bibliography in this volume for catalogues on Henry Ward Ranger, John Henry Twachtman, ...
Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of ...

Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of ...

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology.

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