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Public Welfare, Science and Propaganda in 17th-Century France: The Innovations of Theophraste Renaudot
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Full Title:
Public Welfare, Science and Propaganda in 17th-Century France: The Innovations of Theophraste Renaudot
Contributors:
By (Author) Howard M. Solomon
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Social and cultural history
History of science
Dewey:
944.032
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
308
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
595g
Description
Public medicine, popular education, state employment agencies, the diffusion of scientific and technical knowledge, the dissemination of information by the government--all these things are an indispensable part of the modern state. All were proposed in the seventeenth century by Theophraste Renaudot, who felt they were necessary to meet the new soc
