A Company of Scientists

 collapse sectionACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 collapse sectionPART I  THE SETTING
 expand sectionChapter 1  Portrait of an Institution

 collapse sectionPART II  THE INSTITUTION AND ITS PATRONAGE
 expand sectionChapter 2  Members and Protectors
 expand sectionChapter 3  Models for a Company of Scientists
 expand sectionChapter 4  The Material Benefits of Membership:  Pensions and Quarters
 expand sectionChapter 5  Research Subventions and Ministerial Control

 collapse sectionPART III  BOTANICAL RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY
 expand sectionChapter 6  The Natural History of Plants:  Rival Conceptions
 expand sectionChapter 7  Justifying the Chemical Analysis of Plants
 expand sectionChapter 8  Ministerial Intervention and an Unexpected Outcome
 expand sectionChapter 9  Analogical Reasoning:  The Model
 expand sectionChapter 10  Analogical Reasoning:  The Theory
 expand sectionChapter 11  Chemical and Mechanical Explanation of Physiological Processes
 expand sectionChapter 12  The New Instruments and Botany

 collapse sectionPART IV  THE ACADEMY AND THE LARGER COMMUNITY
 expand sectionChapter 13  Medical Motivations and Social Responsibility
 collapse sectionChapter 14  Scientific Paris at the End of the Century
 •The Scientific Community
 •Modest Public Interest in Science
 •Scientific Goods and Services in Paris, 1660–1700
 •Conclusion
 expand sectionChapter 15  Academicians and the Larger Scientific Community

 collapse sectionPART V  THE EFFECTS OF PATRONAGE
 •Chapter 16  The Academy as an Instrument of the Crown

 expand sectionNOTES
  ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE APPENDIX, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
  APPENDIX  THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURE, 1666–1699
 expand sectionNOTES TO APPENDIX
 expand sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX
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