HPSC 1004 Introduction to Science Policy

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HPSC 1004 Introduction to Science Policy

• Week 2 Slot 1
• Science and the State in the 17th Century

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universities
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church
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doctors
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Court patronage
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Independent wealth
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First scientific societies

• Italian Accademia dei Lincei (1603)
• Royal Society (1662)
• French Academy of Sciences (1666)
• Berlin Academy of Sciences (1700)

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scientific journals
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Technicians and research assistants Robert Hooke
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Louis XIV and French Academy of Sciences
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French Academy of Sciences 1698
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat, History of the
Royal Society, 1667
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat, History of the
Royal Society, 1667
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Robert Boyle and air-pump
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Robert Boyle vs. Thomas Hobbes