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  • Methodology and Apologetics: Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society

  • P. B. Wood
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 1980
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 1-26
    Print publication:
    March 1980

  • Central to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society was the description and justification of the method adopted and advocated by the Fellows of the Society, for it was thought that it was their method which distinguished them from ancients, dogmatists, sceptics, and contemporary natural philosophers such as Descartes. The Fellows saw themselves as furthering primarily a novel method, rather than a system, of philosophy, and the History gave expression to this corporate self-perception. However, the History's description of their method was not necessarily accurate. Rather, as will be argued below, by a combination of subtle misrepresentation and selective exposition, Sprat portrayed a method which would further the aims of social and ecclesiastical stability and material prosperity, essential for the Royal Society since its continued existence depended upon the creation of a social basis for the institutionalized pursuit of natural philosophy. Some link had to be forged between the activities of the Society and the intellectual and social aspirations of the Restoration. To understand the intent and meaning of Sprat's History and the method there portrayed, we must therefore look to the institutional needs which it fulfilled.

  • BJH volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b6
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    March 1980
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  • BJH volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
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  • Donovan Chilton: 24 February 1909–17 January 1978

  • J. A. Chaldecott
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. 88-89
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    March 1980
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  • Politics and vocation: French Science, 1793–1830

  • Dorinda Outram
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. 27-43
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    March 1980

  • French science of the period between 1793 and 1830 is now a major focus of study. The large body of work produced since the nineteenth century, particularly in the field of institutional history, has provided the background for important attempts in the last ten or fifteen years to apply tools of sociological analysis to this field of enquiry. Particularly important have been theories of professionalization and institutionalization. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the consequences of the use of such models in relation to this specific historical context. In particular, I shall suggest that such questions as the importance of institutions in the conduct of science, and the extent to which science became a profession or remained a vocation, may be better understood once the world of French science has been situated in a wider political and intellectual context. An article, however, can do no more than suggest new perspectives, and must leave to more extended treatments the work of amplification and correction. Briefly, however, this paper will argue for a view of science at this period as locked in a conflict between the ambiguous demands of the political world on the one hand, and on the other pressures on individuals and groups within the vocation of science to conform to an ideology which viewed science as completely non-political.

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