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Career-Making in Post-Revolutionary France: the Case of Jean-Baptiste Biot

Eugene Frankel

British Journal for the History of Science 11 (1):36-48 (1978)

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Poisson's Memoirs on Electricity: Academic Politics and a New Style in Physics.R. W. Home - 1983 - British Journal for the History of Science 16 (3):239-259.details Siméon Denis Poisson was a major figure in French science throughout the first forty years of the nineteenth century. Though his papers lack the brilliant mathematical creativity of some of those published by even more gifted contemporaries such as Joseph Fourier and Augustin-Louis Cauchy , they nevertheless display a formidable talent for mathematical analysis, applied with great industry and success in a large number of investigations ranging over the whole domain of mathematical physics. Several were of such importance that even (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
A Social History of the “Galois Affair” at the Paris Academy of Sciences.Caroline Ehrhardt - 2010 - Science in Context 23 (1):91-119.details ArgumentThis article offers a social history of the “Galois Affair,” which arose in 1831 when the French Academy of Sciences decided to reject a paper presented by an aspiring mathematician, Évariste Galois. In order to historicize the meaning of Galois's work at the time he tried to earn recognition for his research on the algebraic solution of equations, this paper explores two interrelated questions. First, it analyzes scholarly algebraic practices and the way mathematicians were trained in the nineteenth century to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Politics and vocation: French Science, 1793–1830.Dorinda Outram - 1980 - British Journal for the History of Science 13 (1):27-43.details French science of the period between 1793 and 1830 is now a major focus of study. The large body of work produced since the nineteenth century, particularly in the field of institutional history, has provided the background for important attempts in the last ten or fifteen years to apply tools of sociological analysis to this field of enquiry. Particularly important have been theories of professionalization and institutionalization. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the consequences of the use (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 13 citations

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