Académies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censure
[Academies and the creation of scientific knowledge: the circulation of ideas and censorships mechanisms]. This article analyses how European academies contributed to shape the idea of scientific truth in the second half of XVIIIth century. It focuses on the role played by academics in disseminating...
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2016-12-01
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| author | Patrizia Delpiano |
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| description | [Academies and the creation of scientific knowledge: the circulation of ideas and censorships mechanisms]. This article analyses how European academies contributed to shape the idea of scientific truth in the second half of XVIIIth century. It focuses on the role played by academics in disseminating certain theories and censoring other ones, destined to be considered as false beliefs. Two theories stand out: mesmerism, connected to the Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer, and the nouvelle chimie, connected to the chemical revolution implemented by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. The criteria of scientific truth elaborated by academics influenced the reception of the two theories in France and Italy: mesmerism was received with popular enthusiasm while was condemned by the academic world as the invention of a charlatan; on the opposite, Lavoisier’s chemistry, after initial resistances, was accepted at the institutional level. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bed9ed44b8c9423ca058c05530ff53f62022-12-22T02:13:17ZengConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)Laboratorio dell'ISPF1824-98172016-12-01XIII10.12862/Lab16DLPAcadémies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censurePatrizia Delpiano0Università di Torino[Academies and the creation of scientific knowledge: the circulation of ideas and censorships mechanisms]. This article analyses how European academies contributed to shape the idea of scientific truth in the second half of XVIIIth century. It focuses on the role played by academics in disseminating certain theories and censoring other ones, destined to be considered as false beliefs. Two theories stand out: mesmerism, connected to the Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer, and the nouvelle chimie, connected to the chemical revolution implemented by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. The criteria of scientific truth elaborated by academics influenced the reception of the two theories in France and Italy: mesmerism was received with popular enthusiasm while was condemned by the academic world as the invention of a charlatan; on the opposite, Lavoisier’s chemistry, after initial resistances, was accepted at the institutional level.http://www.ispf-lab.cnr.it/2016_DLP.pdfAcademiesJournalsScientific ValidationMesmerismChemical Revolution |
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| title | Académies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censure |
| title_full | Académies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censure |
| title_fullStr | Académies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censure |
| title_full_unstemmed | Académies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censure |
| title_short | Académies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censure |
| title_sort | academies et creation du savoir scientifique circulation des idees et mecanismes de la censure |
| topic | Academies Journals Scientific Validation Mesmerism Chemical Revolution |
| url | http://www.ispf-lab.cnr.it/2016_DLP.pdf |
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