Charles Coulston Gillispie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Coulston Gillispie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles Coulston |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillispie |
| SIGNATURE | GILLISPIE C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Books, 1956–1963
Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in the world on the history of science. From Galileo’s analysis of motion to theories of evolution and relativity, Gillispie introduces key concepts, indi…
Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship
The Science of Machines
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
Lazare and Sadi Carnot
Studies and Heritage of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu
L’Aérostation au temps des Lumières (review)
Reviewed by: L’Aérostation au temps des Lumières Charles C. Gillispie (bio) L’Aérostation au temps des Lumières. By Marie Thébaud-Sorger. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2009. Pp. 350. €19. This book is in keeping with a trend in postmodern historiography, most notably in France, wherein the focus is less on the events themselves than on their context and perception socially and culturally. Marie Thébaud-Sorger evokes the spectacular, n…
Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science: Transactions, American Philosophical Society
The Encyclopédie and the Jacobin Philosophy of Science: A Study in Ideas and Consequences
THIS PAPER WAS DELIVERED at an Institute for the History of held under the auspices of the Department of History of at the University of Wisconsin in the first ten days of September 1957. The initiative had come from the Joint Committee of the Social Research Council and the National Research Council under the chairmanship of Richard H. Shryock. Its intent was to devise ways and means to stimulate study of the history of science. One of the means…
Palisot de Beauvois on the Americans
AS THE SECOND ENDNOTE to the text explains, this essay was written for a collection commissioned in honor of Jacques Roger (1920-1990) on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Paris. Roger was a good friend and a fine scholar, one of the few historians of science who gravitated to the discipline from the side of literature rather than of science. He found, he said, a satisfying solidity in the subject that was lacking in literary …
Science in the French revolution
Following the French Revolution, scientists were pressed into the service of the Republic on a scale theretofore unequaled. Yet the learned academies were abolished by the Republic. There was enthusiasm about natural history, but the more abstract, theoretical, particularly mathematical, aspects of natural science were seen as incompatible with the ideology of the Revolution. The complex mixture of adulation and hostility on the part of the Repub…
The Distorted Meridian
Denis Guedj’s La Méridienne (1792–1799); où comment Jean‐Baptiste Delambre et Pierre Méchain, traversant la France révolutionnaire à la rencontre l’un de l’autre, parvinrent à définir un nouvel étalon universel, le mètre, is a novel about the survey of the meridian of Paris on which the metric system was based. The author’s account distorts and falsifies the facts in order to make what he considers a good story. This essay contrasts that approach…
De l'espionnage industriel à la veille technologique (review)
Reviewed by Charles C. Gillispie De l'espionnage industriel à la veille technologique. By Michel Cotte. Belfort-Montbéliard: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2005. Pp. 289. €27. The title of Michel Cotte's interesting and informative monograph is a touch unclear. He is concerned not with industrial spying per se, the importance of which he considers to be exaggerated if not quasi-mythical, but with the circulation of technological ideas t…
Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science
Charles Coulston Gillispie, Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 96, No. 5 (2006), pp. i-xix, 1, 3-63, 65-163, 165, 167-243, 245, 247-349, 351, 353-411, 413-424
Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt. Anne Marie Claire Godlewska
Apologia pro Vita Sua
Engineering the Revolution
Des techniciens en charge de la production d'armes pour la crise militaire de la revolution Francaise ont developpe des canons composes de parties interchangeables
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science
Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the philosophical point of view he developed in the presentation of his work, and for the leading part he took in forming the modern discipline of mathematical physics. His two most famous treatises were the five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (1799-18…
Eloge: Charles Scribner, Jr., 13 July 1921-11 November 1995
Saggio sulle macchine in generale . Lazare Carnot , Antonino Drago , Salvatore D. Manno
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 28: November 1, 1778, through February 28, 1779
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 28: November 1, 1778, through February 28, 1779. Ed. by Barbara B. Oberg, Dorothy W. Bridgwater, Ellen R. Cohn, Jonathan R. Dull and The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 29: March 1 through June 30,1779. Ed. by Barbara B. Oberg, Dorothy W. Bridgwater, Ellen R. Cohn, Jonathan R. Dull Charles C. Gillispie Charles C. Gillispie Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on:…
Scholarship Epitomized Companion to the History of Modern Science . R. C. Olby , G. N. Cantor , R. Christie , M. J. S. Hodge
De la richesse territoriale du Royaume de France. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier , Jean-Claude Perrot
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science
Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the philosophical point of view he developed in the presentation of his work, and for the leading part he took in forming the modern discipline of mathematical physics. His two most famous treatises were the five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (1799-18…
The Evolutionary Theories of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer [and Comments and Replies]
In this paper certain crucial differences between the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer are explored. Particular attention is given to the Lamarckian basis of Spencer's evolutionary doctrine
The Natural History of Industry
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry
Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850
First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches which, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over On the Origin of Species was nothing new: earlier discoveries in science (particularly geology) had presented major challenges, not only …
The Discovery of the Leblanc Process
History of 1he social sciences
Comme prolègomène à toute historiographie future des sciences sociales, l’auteur soutient que le sujet ne saurait être traité comme la somme des développements parallèles dans des disciplines séparées, dont les états antérieurs ne sont considérés que relativement à leur état actuel. Les chercheurs seraient mieux inspirés de concevoir leur sujet comme un ensemble de questions sur le rôle historique de la systématisation et de l’institutionnalisati…
Science in the French revolution
Following the French Revolution, scientists were pressed into the service of the Republic on a scale theretofore unequaled. Yet the learned academies were abolished by the Republic. There was enthusiasm about natural history, but the more abstract, theoretical, particularly mathematical, aspects of natural science were seen as incompatible with the ideology of the Revolution. The complex mixture of adulation and hostility on the part of the Repub…
The Distorted Meridian
Denis Guedj’s La Méridienne (1792–1799); où comment Jean‐Baptiste Delambre et Pierre Méchain, traversant la France révolutionnaire à la rencontre l’un de l’autre, parvinrent à définir un nouvel étalon universel, le mètre, is a novel about the survey of the meridian of Paris on which the metric system was based. The author’s account distorts and falsifies the facts in order to make what he considers a good story. This essay contrasts that approach…
Apologia pro Vita Sua
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Society
Towards an Historiography of Science. Joseph Agassi
The Work of Élie Halévy: A Critical Appreciation
Physick and Philosophy: A Study of the Influence of the College of Physicians of London upon the Foundation of the Royal Society
PERHAPS IT WOULD be well to explain a little more fully than does the foregoing essay how this, my earliest scholarly publication, came to be and how its author came to be a historian of science at all. For as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, Class of 1940, I majored in chemistry. From the perspective of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the depths of the depression, companies like Dupont looked to be a better bet than the steel company in whic…
The Work of Élie Halévy: A Critical Appreciation
Scientists and Amateurs: A History of the Royal Society. Dorothy Stimson
Three Essays
Three Essays: Idleness as a Part of Education
Diderot and Descartes, a Study of Scientific Naturalism in the Enlightenment . Aram Vartanian
Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to His Time. Noel Gilroy Annan
Administrative Documents
Administrative Documents
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Digressions sur les anciens et les modernes . Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Robert Shackleton
The Discovery of the Leblanc Process
Réaumur's Memoirs on Steel and Iron. René Antoine Ferchault Réaumur , Anneliese Grunhaldt Sisco
The Natural History of Industry
The Physical World of the Greeks . S. Sambursky
Science in the French Revolution
Following the French Revolution, scientists were pressed into the service of the Republic on a scale theretofore unequaled. Yet the learned academies were abolished by the Republic. There was enthusiasm about natural history, but the more abstract, theoretical, particularly mathematical, aspects of natural science were seen as incompatible with the ideology of the Revolution. The complex mixture of adulation and hostility on the part of the Repub…
A History of Technology, Volume III, from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, c. 1500--c. 1750 . Charles Singer , E. J. Holmyard , A. R. Hall , Trevor I. Williams , Y. Peel , J. R. Petty
Oeuvres Philosophiques de Cabanis. Cabanis
Notes & Correspondence
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" o…
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution. Gertrude Himmelfarb
A Diderot Pictoral Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Manufacturing, and the Technical Arts, in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" …
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry
Naturphilosophie im 19. Jahrhundert . Gerhard Hennemann
Towards an Historiography of Science. Joseph Agassi
Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850
First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches which, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over On the Origin of Species was nothing new: earlier discoveries in science (particularly geology) had presented major challenges, not only …
Philosophy (35 works) · Computer Science (29 works) · History (29 works) · Art history (26 works) · Political science (24 works) · Sociology (22 works) · History of Science and Natural History (20 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (18 works) · Epistemology (17 works) · Library science (17 works)