A Company of Scientists |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
PART I THE SETTING |
Chapter 1 Portrait of an Institution |
14 | PART II THE INSTITUTION AND ITS PATRONAGE |
11 | Chapter 2 Members and Protectors |
Chapter 3 Models for a Company of Scientists |
1 | Chapter 4 The Material Benefits of Membership: Pensions and Quarters |
2 | Chapter 5 Research Subventions and Ministerial Control |
1 | • | Colbert: The Generous Foundation |
1 | • | Louvois: Declining Interest and Support |
• | Pontchartrain: A Penurious Revival |
• | Conclusion |
134 | PART III BOTANICAL RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY |
43 | Chapter 6 The Natural History of Plants: Rival Conceptions |
53 | Chapter 7 Justifying the Chemical Analysis of Plants |
30 | Chapter 8 Ministerial Intervention and an Unexpected Outcome |
Chapter 9 Analogical Reasoning: The Model |
Chapter 10 Analogical Reasoning: The Theory |
7 | Chapter 11 Chemical and Mechanical Explanation of Physiological Processes |
1 | Chapter 12 The New Instruments and Botany |
39 | PART IV THE ACADEMY AND THE LARGER COMMUNITY |
23 | Chapter 13 Medical Motivations and Social Responsibility |
4 | Chapter 14 Scientific Paris at the End of the Century |
12 | Chapter 15 Academicians and the Larger Scientific Community |
PART V THE EFFECTS OF PATRONAGE |
• | Chapter 16 The Academy as an Instrument of the Crown |
97 | NOTES |
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE APPENDIX, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY |
5 | APPENDIX THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURE, 1666–1699 |
NOTES TO APPENDIX |
10 | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
12 | INDEX |