S
Sablé, Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de, 201
Saint Anthony's fire. See Ergotism
Saint Hilaire, 332 n.67
Saint Pierre, abbé Charles Irénée Castel de, 190
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 19
Salomon-Bayet, Claire, on analogy, 120 , 121
Salt, crystals of resemble corpuscles, 98 .
See also Distillants
Sanson, family of cartographers, 192
Sap:compared with blood, 132 , 133 -134, 135 -136
functions of, 135 -136, 141 , 146 , 151 -152
theory that it circulates, 67 , 70 , 79 , 118 , 119 , 124 , 131 -144, 158 , 164 , 317 n.4.
See also Chemical analysis of sap
Sauveur, Joseph, 327 n.57
Scarron, Paul, poet, 186
Science: attitudes toward, 20 , 28 , 45
audience for, 170 , 181 , 182 -186, 190 , 194 -198
and culture, 226
mocked, 205 -206
and popular culture, 135 , 311 n.6
as a profession, 35 , 45 , 181 ; 223 -224
as recreation, 182 , 185 , 193 -194
reform of, 30
teaching of, 44 , 190 , 197 -198, 204 , 217 , 223
and war, 201
"Scientist," word not coined yet, 4 , 181
Sébastien, père. See Truchet
Secrecy, 223
impossibility of, 207
risks of, 207
Sédileau, 18 , 44 , 55 , 294 n.40, 333 n.70
role at Academy, 22
studies disease of orange trees, 110 , 111
active or passive, 152 -153
behavior of in evacuated receiver, 160 , 162 -163
collected from around world for cultivation, 79
dispersal of, 147
maturation and release of, 151 -152
physiology of, 164 -165
Séguier, Pierre, chancellor of France, 17
Sevin, Pierre, mathematical instrument maker, 44
Shadwell, Thomas, playwright, 205
Signatures, theory of, ridiculed by 
Dodart 
, 97
Sloane, Sir Hans, and Tournefort, 328 -329 n.16
Société royale de la médecine, 196
Societies, learned and scientific, 27 , 28 -29, 34 , 156 , 199 , 205
communication between, 205
contacts between, 202
correspondence with, 203
private, 20 , 21 , 22 , 155 , 165 , 181 , 190 , 195 , 196 , 199 , 202 , 303 n.5
publications of in vernacular, 184 .
See also names of societies or sponsors
Solomon, House of, 28 , 43 , 65 , 292 n.23
Solvents. See Alkahest; Chemical analysis, methods of
Sorbière, Samuel, 215
South, Robert, 205
Specimens of unusual plants and curiosities, 80 , 194 -195, 204 , 207
collected by Academy, 213
exchanged, 203
Spontaneous generation. See Generation
Sprat, Thomas, 215
Spurred rye. See Rye
Stubbe, Henry, 205
Surveying. See Instruments and apparatus; Versailles, water supply of