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

本项目将研究法国化学革命期间知识和文化变化之间的联系，以阐明某些理论结论的文化和知识原因，以及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，包括寻求推动化学走向革命性结论的学者以及试图阻止革命浪潮的学者。 这项研究将沿着沿着四个历史分析的综合轴绘制化学革命期间的变化：社区，实践，机构和理论。 因此，我们将考察化学界中的竞争群体，以及这些亚群体如何相互作用，以及如何与其他知识和社会群体相互作用;实验、文本和社会实践是各种化学派别的特征;化学家学习和实践科学的机构;以及在这一事件中发挥作用的知识议程和理论承诺。

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.