Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 SCIENCE IN FRANCE
- 2 THE STRUCTURE OF THE ACADEMY
- 3 THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ACADEMY: SOME POSSIBLE ROLES
- 4 SCIENCE DIVIDED: THE SECTIONS
- 5 THE ACADEMICIANS
- 6 ELECTIONS: ‘GREEN FEVER’
- 7 REGISTRATION, JUDGEMENT AND REWARD
- 8 THE PRINTED WORD
- 9 AN ACADEMY UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL
- 10 ‘OUTSIDERS’: THE SCIENTIFIC FRINGE AND THE PUBLIC
- 11 THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION
- 12 THE CONTROL OF THE ACADEMY AND OF SCIENCE
- Name index
- Subject index
8 - THE PRINTED WORD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 SCIENCE IN FRANCE
- 2 THE STRUCTURE OF THE ACADEMY
- 3 THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ACADEMY: SOME POSSIBLE ROLES
- 4 SCIENCE DIVIDED: THE SECTIONS
- 5 THE ACADEMICIANS
- 6 ELECTIONS: ‘GREEN FEVER’
- 7 REGISTRATION, JUDGEMENT AND REWARD
- 8 THE PRINTED WORD
- 9 AN ACADEMY UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL
- 10 ‘OUTSIDERS’: THE SCIENTIFIC FRINGE AND THE PUBLIC
- 11 THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION
- 12 THE CONTROL OF THE ACADEMY AND OF SCIENCE
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Make of your … [Mémoires] a classical and selected compilation of the best of what you have done, leaving yourselves time for revision and correction. This is a means of assuring its future reputation.
(Report of Commission of the First Class in 1809, P.V.I., 4, 228.)The communication, reading and publication of a paper presented to the Academy is … an affair of the inside of a week, and it is a certainty. … [It is not difficult] to show what a powerful engine the Academy of Sciences is in the production and encouragement of work.
(Prof. J. Y. Buchanan, F.R.S., Nature, 69 (1903–4) 293.)The deficits for the Comptes rendus … have been made good by means of loans made with the authorisation of the Minister from the surplus from the Montyon account. But these loans, too often repeated, will end up by becoming a real abuse.
(Letter from Academy to Minister of State, 28 October 1861. A.S., Copie de lettres, 1861–74, p. 33.)Publication
In the sixteenth century a major figure like Copernicus could devote a large part of his life to the publication of a single book which expounded his ideas. When in the seventeenth century the first permanent scientific societies were founded, the method of publication through great books gradually came to be supplemented by smaller scale communications. Often written originally in the form of letters, they came to be published as papers or memoirs, possibly describing a series of experiments and suggesting a conclusion.
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- Science under ControlThe French Academy of Sciences 1795–1914, pp. 279 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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