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  • BJH volume 11 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 1 / March 1978
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
    Print publication:
    March 1978
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  • Career-Making in Post-Revolutionary France: the Case of Jean-Baptiste Biot

  • Eugene Frankel
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 1 / March 1978
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 36-48
    Print publication:
    March 1978

  • Science is an occupation as well as an intellectual endeavour. This fact is extremely well known, but its consequences have been little explored by historians of science. Sociologists such as Merton, Hagstrom, and Storer have argued that occupational rewards motivate a scientist to publish and thereby further the intellectual ends of the scientific community. Yet, as I have shown in a recent paper, such rewards can also lead to work which is hasty, superficial, and blindly uncritical of the dominant paradigm. Thus the relationship between career motivation and genuine intellectual achievement must be regarded as problematic at best.

  • The Inter-Relations Between Social, Biological, and Medical Thought, 1750–1850: Saint-Simon and Comte

  • Barbara Haines
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 1 / March 1978
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 19-35
    Print publication:
    March 1978

  • In a paper which examined the ‘simultaneous emergence of evolutionary theories in biology and sociology in the nineteenth century’, J. C. Greene said of Comte that ‘it was not from biology that his inspiration [the inspiration of his evolutionary view] was drawn; his writings and letters in the formative period sing the praises of Bichat and Gall but not of Lamarck. His intellectual debt in social theory lay in a different direction—to Condorcet's Sketch of an historical picture of the progress of the human mind, to the historical writings of Hume and Robertson, and to the ideas of Saint-Simon’. This statement from a paper published almost twenty years ago as an exploratory reconnaissance of virgin territory is representative of the kind of confused judgements which still surround a discussion of the inter-relations between social, biological and medical thought in the century 1750 to 1850. It makes some valid points which a critical examination should not be allowed to overwhelm, the most significant being that Comte is unequivocally identified with the Enlightenment tradition represented here by Condorcet, Robertson and Hume. But since it is a very condensed statement about a complex set of relationships, it invites interpretations which the author did not necessarily intend.

  • Geology and Orthodoxy: The Case of Noah's Flood in Eighteenth-Century Thought

  • Rhoda Rappaport
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 1 / March 1978
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 1-18
    Print publication:
    March 1978

  • The view that religious orthodoxy stifled geological progress has had many distinguished exponents, one of the earliest being Georges Cuvier. To Cuvier, however, efforts to combine Genesis with geology ended before the middle of the eighteenth century, and opened the way not for progress but for wild speculation. We may admire the genius of Leibniz and Buffon, he declared, but this should not lead us to confuse system-building with geology as ‘une science positive’. While Cuvier's younger contemporary, Charles Lyell, agreed that ‘extravagant systems’ had retarded progress, he insisted that ‘scriptural authority’ had had a similar effect until late in the eighteenth century.

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