Public Welfare, Science and Propaganda in 17th-Century France: The Innovations of Theophraste Renaudot

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Main Details

Title Public Welfare, Science and Propaganda in 17th-Century France: The Innovations of Theophraste Renaudot
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Howard M. Solomon
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:308
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreHistory of science
ISBN/Barcode 9780691646428
ClassificationsDewey:944.032
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

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