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      A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie

      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.

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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.

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      The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784: With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads

      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…

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      The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784: With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads

      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…

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      Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years

      Charles Coulston Gillispie

      Examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to modernization both of politics and science. This work argues that in politics the central feature of this modernization was conversion of…

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

      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…

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      Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science

      Charles Coulston Gillispie

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      Genesis and Geology: A Study of the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850, With a Foreword by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a New Preface by the Author

      Charles Coulston Gillispie

      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…

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      Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

      Charles Coulston Gillispie,Raffaele Pisano

      This unique book shows how Lazare Carnot and his son Sadi influenced each other in their work in the fields of mechanics and thermodynamics, and how future generations of scientists…

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      Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

      Charles Coulston Gillispie,Raffaele Pisano

      Lazare and Sadi Carnot

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      The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas

      Charles Coulston Gillispie

      Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles…

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

      Charles Coulston Gillispie,Robert Fox,Ivor Grattan-Guinness

      Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. This volume traces the development of Laplace’s research programme and of his participation in the Academy of Science during the…

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