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  • Lazare and Sadi Carnot
    Charles Coulston Gillispie / Raffaele Pisano
    Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concep...
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    210,77 €

  • The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784
    Charles Coulston Gillispie
    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 edi...
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    166,75 €

  • The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784
    Charles Coulston Gillispie
    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 edi...
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    68,01 €

  • Lazare and Sadi Carnot
    Charles Coulston Gillispie / Raffaele Pisano
    Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respec...
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    209,40 €

  • Science and Polity in France
    Charles Coulston Gillispie
    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 ...
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    161,57 €

  • Science and Polity in France
    Charles Coulston Gillispie
    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 sc...
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    100,89 €

  • Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827
    Charles Coulston Gillispie
    Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the philosophical point of view he developed in the presentation of his work, and for the leading part he took in forming the modern discipline of mathematical physics. His two most famo...
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    85,60 €