Mémoires de ma vie

Jantz, Harold; Verlaine, Ex-Madame Paul

doi:10.2307/40077930

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“…Literary author Charles Perrault even claimed that, thanks to their mother, he and his brothers were never whipped by their professors at college. 72 The household helped prepare children for the university, but it also allowed them to devote themselves to other reading materials. 73 In some cases, such as the Godefroys, women participated in the scholarly endeavours of the family.…”

Section: A Scientific Culture: Laying the Foundations For Astronomymentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France

Rabinovitch

2023

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Historians have long debated the origins of modern science in early modern Europe. Recently, however, scholars pointed to our need to understand how the ‘new philosophy’ became a sustained movement, which did not dissipate over the course of a few generations, as had previous scientific renaissances in other civilizations. This article suggests that the mediations of the printed book allowed a broader public to engage with the astronomical ideas at the core of scientific transformations. This article examines the interactions that the world of the book generated between authors at the ‘core’ of early modern science and ‘amateurs’ who were interested in recent cosmological discussion around the notion of the ‘system of the world’. It argues that this concept served simultaneously to discuss mathematico-physical problems, to make claims for authorship and to provide cultural orientation, which made it amenable to appropriation and dialogue across a range of genres. The new social interactions around the ‘system of the world’ allowed a heavily mathematical science to become a viable and sustainable cultural phenomenon, a veritable building-block of a new scientific culture at the heart of European modernity.

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Section: A Scientific Culture: Laying the Foundations For Astronomymentioning

confidence: 99%