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ISBN: 0226768635 0226768627 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press
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HIS History & Biographies --- France --- history --- natural history --- Natural history --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- History --- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) --- Musée d'histoire naturelle (France) --- Muséum d'histoire naturelle (France) --- Musée national d'histoire naturelle (France) --- Paris. --- France. --- Músaem Náisiúnta na Staire Aiceanta (France) --- Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris --- French National Museum of Natural History --- National Museum of Natural History (France) --- Museum of Natural History (France) --- MNHN --- Jardin du roi (France) --- NATURAL HISTORY --- SCIENCE --- FRANCE --- HISTORY
ISBN: 1283058596 9786613058591 0226768708 9780226768700 9781283058599 6613058599 0226768627 9780226768625 0226768635 9780226768632 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.
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