A Company of Scientists

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I  THE SETTING

Chapter 1  Portrait of an Institution

PART II  THE INSTITUTION AND ITS PATRONAGE

Chapter 2  Members and Protectors

Chapter 3  Models for a Company of Scientists

Chapter 4  The Material Benefits of Membership:  Pensions and Quarters

Chapter 5  Research Subventions and Ministerial Control

PART III  BOTANICAL RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY

Chapter 6  The Natural History of Plants:  Rival Conceptions

Chapter 7  Justifying the Chemical Analysis of Plants

Chapter 8  Ministerial Intervention and an Unexpected Outcome

Chapter 9  Analogical Reasoning:  The Model

Chapter 10  Analogical Reasoning:  The Theory

Chapter 11  Chemical and Mechanical Explanation of Physiological Processes

Chapter 12  The New Instruments and Botany

PART IV  THE ACADEMY AND THE LARGER COMMUNITY

Chapter 13  Medical Motivations and Social Responsibility

Chapter 14  Scientific Paris at the End of the Century

Chapter 15  Academicians and the Larger Scientific Community

PART V  THE EFFECTS OF PATRONAGE

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Chapter 16  The Academy as an Instrument of the Crown

NOTES

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE APPENDIX, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX  THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURE, 1666–1699

NOTES TO APPENDIX

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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