Gay-Lussac : scientist and bourgeois
This is the first work to examine critically both the scientific work and the man behind it, and as well as providing the historian of science with a comprehensive account of the life and work of a major nineteenth-century scientist, the book will also be of value to the social and economic historian.
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.], 2004
XVI, 333 p. 23 cm
9780521524834, 0521524830
1014857465
Preface; Chronological table; List of abbreviations; 1. A young provincial in Paris; 2. The apprentice of Arcueil; 3. Personal influences and the search for laws; 4. Collaboration and rivalry; 5. The volumetric approach; 6. Scientific research; 7. Professor, academician and editor; 8. A scientist in the service of government and industry; 9. A new technique and the dissemination of technical information; 10. Scientist and bourgeois in the political arena; 11. The legacy; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Name index; Subject index.