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

这个项目将考察法国化学革命期间知识和文化变化之间的联系，以阐明得出某些理论结论的文化和知识原因，反过来，这些理论结论对法国化学文化的影响。该项目旨在扩大当前学术的证据和解释范围，包括那些试图推动化学得出革命性结论的学者，以及那些试图阻止这场革命浪潮的人。这项研究将沿着四个综合的历史分析轴线绘制化学革命期间的变化图表：社区、实践、机构和理论。因此，将审查化学社区中相互竞争的群体以及这些亚社区如何在它们之间以及如何与其他智力和社会群体互动；各种化学派别的实验、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.