No Need for Geniuses

Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine

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In revolutionary Paris, ‘In the heady days around the fall of the Bastille, the city was saturated in science’; and the overlap between revolutionaries and the scientists – politiques and philosophes – is a major theme in this study of the remarkable, yet often overlooked achievements of French science during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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