The Montmor Discourse: Science and the Ideology of Stability in Old Régime France

In 1663, scholar Samuel Sorbiere pronounced a discourse on the sciences at a meeting of savants. Sorbiere voiced a new ideological conception of the relation between the sciences and society, and his speech marks the beginning of an Enlightenment ideology.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inThe Journal of the Historical Society (Boston, Mass.) Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 1 - 28
Main Author Adkins, G. Matthew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing, Inc 01.12.2005
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects
European history
Ideology
Scholars
Social sciences
Sorbiere, Samuel
France
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:In 1663, scholar Samuel Sorbiere pronounced a discourse on the sciences at a meeting of savants. Sorbiere voiced a new ideological conception of the relation between the sciences and society, and his speech marks the beginning of an Enlightenment ideology.
Bibliography:ArticleID:JHIS116
ark:/67375/WNG-P4LVHNQL-L
istex:9F7584B6BAA7698BB9FC516E78DB2BA027631E84
ISSN:1529-921X
1540-5923
DOI:10.1111/j.1529-921X.2005.00116.x