Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France

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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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Main Author:	Heffernan, Michael
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2014
Subjects:	18th-century geography; scientific patronage; Paris Academy of Sciences; French Royal Court
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28178/

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