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The surprising and sometimes shocking history of the scientific innovations in Paris during the French Revolution, by the author of Darwin’s Ghost. Paris at t

Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of mor

Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific crit

Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. The city was saturated in scientists; many had an astonishing breadth of talents. P

The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established