TY - BOOK ID - 5163340 TI - Science under control PY - 1992 SN - 0521413737 052152475X 051156371X 9780521413732 9780511563713 9780521524759 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Learned institutions and societies KW - Science and state KW - Sciences KW - Sociétés savantes et instituts KW - Politique scientifique et technique KW - History KW - Study and teaching KW - Histoire KW - Etude et enseignement KW - Académie royale des sciences (France) KW - Académie des sciences (France) KW - History. KW - 061.12 <44 PARIS> KW - 001.89 <09> KW - -Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Academies--Frankrijk--PARIS KW - Organisatie van wetenschap en wetenschappelijk werk. Wetenschapsbeleid--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Academie royale des sciences (France) KW - -French Royal Academy of Sciences KW - Royal Academy of Sciences (France) KW - Académie royale des sciences de l'Institut de France KW - Institut de France. KW - France. KW - Koninglijke Academie der Weetenschappen (France) KW - Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Paris KW - -Academies--Frankrijk--PARIS KW - -History KW - 001.89 <09> Organisatie van wetenschap en wetenschappelijk werk. Wetenschapsbeleid--Geschiedenis van ... KW - 061.12 <44 PARIS> Academies--Frankrijk--PARIS KW - Sociétés savantes et instituts KW - Académie royale des sciences (France) KW - Académie des sciences (France) KW - Organisatie van wetenschap en wetenschappelijk werk. Wetenschapsbeleid--Geschiedenis van .. KW - French Royal Academy of Sciences KW - Organisatie van wetenschap en wetenschappelijk werk. Wetenschapsbeleid--Geschiedenis van . KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Science - France - History. KW - Organisatie van wetenschap en wetenschappelijk werk. Wetenschapsbeleid--Geschiedenis van UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5163340 AB - The greatest ambition of any moderately successful nineteenth-century French scientist was to become a member of the Academy of Sciences. Science under Control is the first major study, in any language, of this elite institution, in a period which began with such influential figures as Laplace and Cuvier and extended to the time of Louis Pasteur and Henri Poincare. The book attempts to remove the veil of mystery and misunderstanding which has shrouded this key institution and its procedures. The French government exercised political, financial and bureaucratic control over the Academy, and the Academy in turn sat in judgement over all serious scientific production. Only with its approval could the work of French scientists win acceptance and their careers advance. The book provides a case study of carefully regulated scientific production encouraged yet constrained within a system of reports, prizes and elections. ER -