Making Science Social: The Conferences of Theophraste Renaudot, 1633-1642 (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory. Series for Science and Culture, V. 6.)

Making Science Social: The Conferences of Theophraste Renaudot, 1633-1642 (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory. Series for Science and Culture, V. 6.)

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Book Description
Between 1633 and 1642, the French physician and philanthropist Théophraste Renaudot sponsored a series of public conferences in Paris. These conferences offered an open forum for wide-ranging discussions of a variety of topics, including science, medicine, gender, politics, and ethics. No matter the topic, participants consistently used scientific reasoning as a new standard of evidence. The conferences thus recast the rhetorical traditions of the Renaissance and prefigured the social sciences of the Enlightenment. They provide a candid snapshot of intellectual life at the dawn of the scientific revolution in France.

In "Making Science Social," Kathleen Wellman uses the published conference proceedings to develop a broadly conceived, revisionist interpretation of the intellectual history of seventeenth-century France and of the roots of modern culture and science.

About the Author
Kathleen Wellman is Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. She is the author of "La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment."

Making Science Social: The Conferences of Theophraste Renaudot, 1633-1642 (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory. Series for Science and Culture, V. 6.),Kathleen Anne Wellman,University of Oklahoma Press,0806135026,1586-1653,17th century,France,History,History: World,Intellectual life,Paris (France),Renaudot, Thâeophraste,,Science,World - General,Contributions in science,Renaudot, Théophraste

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