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L'envers du décor. Science passion - science raison au XIXe siècle

The other side of the picture. Science passion - science reason in the 19th century
Edited by Annaïg Cotonnec and Colette Le Lay
Couverture CFV vol. II n° 6/7
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ISBN 978-2-86939-236-2

The science disseminated in the major schools, defended by the academies and advocated by the masters of the day also had its dissenters and its “refusers”. As is customary, it was in the public arena, through newspapers, that many rebels tried to spread their fruitful ideas and fought against the great ones. It was by becoming popularisers that they made their revolution. This book is dedicated to these refused ones. To make the history of the conflicts between the fixed order of the great bodies and the learned institutions, and the contestation, political or only scientific, of scholars often ignored or rejected in the shadow of the pontiffs of the time, is to refuse a positivism, deficient but persistent, which admits only the recognized science and sends back to the role of second knives all those whose fertile imagination and originality risk to disturb the established order.

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