Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Dictionary of scientific biography ( Book )
28 editions published between 1970 and 2008 in English and held by 2,633 libraries worldwide
Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

The edge of objectivity : an essay in the history of scientific idea by Charles Coulston Gillispie ( Book )
1 edition published in 1960 in English and held by 1,392 libraries worldwide

Genesis and geology; a study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850 by Charles Coulston Gillispie ( Book )
22 editions published between 1951 and 1996 in English and held by 1,333 libraries worldwide
First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches that, 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 to the literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, but even more seriously to the traditional idea that Providence controls the order of nature with an eye to fulfilling divine purpose. A new Foreword by Nicolaas A. Rupke places this book in the context of the last forty-five years of scholarship in the social history of evolutionary thought.

A Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and industry; manufacturing and the technical arts in plates, selected from L'Encyclopédie; ou, Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des métiers, of Denis Diderot ( Book )
7 editions published between 1959 and 1993 in English and held by 1,236 libraries worldwide

The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784 : with a word on the importance of ballooning for the science of heat and the art of building railroads by Charles Coulston Gillispie ( Book )
6 editions published between 1983 and 1998 in English and held by 651 libraries worldwide

Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime by Charles Coulston Gillispie ( Book )
15 editions published between 1980 and 2004 in English and Italian and held by 595 libraries worldwide

Lazare Carnot savant; a monograph treating Carnot's scientific work by Charles Coulston Gillispie ( Book )
2 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 528 libraries worldwide

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 : a life in exact science by Charles Coulston Gillispie ( Book )
10 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in English and held by 511 libraries worldwide
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 Traite de mecanique celeste (1799-1825) and Theorie analytique des probabilites (1812). In the former, he demonstrated mathematically the stability of the solar system in accordance with the universal Newtonian law of gravity. In the latter, he developed probability from a set of miscellaneous problems concerning games, averages, mortality, and insurance risks. These estimates of error and statistical inferences could be applied to social, medical, and legal matters, as well as to the physical sciences. This book traces the development of Laplace's research program and of his participation in the Academy of Science during the last decades of the Old Regime into the early years of the French Revolution.

Monuments of Egypt : the Napoleonic edition : the complete archaeological plates from la Description de l'Egypte ( Book )
7 editions published between 1987 and 1994 in English and held by 376 libraries worldwide

Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years by Charles Coulston Gillispie ( Book )
4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 319 libraries worldwide
"From the 1770s through the 1820s, the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural, political, and technical factors that encouraged scientific productivity on the eve of the Revolution. In the present monumental sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic contexts contributed to modernization of both politics and science."--Jacket.