Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France
This essay considers the politics and patronage of geography in early-modern France. It examines how the Paris Academy of Sciences, widely acknowledged as the 18th century’s pre-eminent scientific society, came to recognise geography as an independent science in 1730, a century before the establishm...
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Wiley
2014
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28178/ |