Doctoral Dissertation Research: Chemistry and Culture in France: 1770-1800

该项目将调查法国化学革命期间知识分子和文化变化之间的联系，以阐明某些理论结论达成的文化和知识原因，以及反过来，这些理论结论对法国化学文化的影响。该项目旨在扩大现有学术的证据和解释范围，包括那些试图推动化学向前发展到革命性结论的学者，以及那些试图阻止革命浪潮的学者。该研究将沿着历史分析的四个综合轴绘制化学革命期间的变化图：社区、实践、制度和理论。因此，我们将考察化学界中相互竞争的群体，以及这些亚群体之间以及与其他智力和社会群体之间如何相互作用；化学实验：以各种化学派别为特征的实验、文本和社会实践；化学家学习和实践他们的科学的机构；以及在这一集中发挥作用的智力议程和理论承诺。

This project will investigate the connections between the intellectual and cultural changes during the Chemical Revolution in France in order to illuminate the cultural and intellectual reasons why certain theoretical conclusions were reached, and conversely, the effect of those theoretical conclusions on the culture of chemistry in France. The project aims to broaden the evidentiary and interpretive scope of current scholarship by including the host of savants who sought to propel chemistry forward to its revolutionary conclusions as well as those who tried to stem that revolutionary tide. The study will chart the changes during the Chemical Revolution along four integrated axes of historical analysis: communities, practices, institutions, and theories. Thus, examination will be made of the competing groups in the chemical community and how these sub-communities interacted among themselves and with other intellectual and social groupings; the experimental, textual, and social practices that characterized the various chemical factions; the institutions in which chemists learned and practiced their science; and the intellectual agendas and theoretical commitments in play during the episode.