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French Academy of Sciences
Overview
The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences [akademi de sjɑ̃s]) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is one of the earliest Academies of Sciences.
Currently headed by Patrick Flandrin (President of the academy), it is one of the five Academies of the Institut de France.
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The legislator is the engineer who invents the machine, the prince merely the mechanic who sets it up and makes it go. "At the birth of societies," says Montesquieu, "the rulers of Republics establish institutions, and afterwards the institutions mould the rulers."[2]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
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In this explanation of the recent position of French affairs one point yet remains to be insisted on. We have seen from the general course of the philosophical, and yet more of the political, movement, the urgent necessity for a universal doctrine capable of checking erroneous action, and of avoiding or moderating…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually explained in this manner. The direction of operations, besides, which must be varied with every change of the weather, as well as with many other accidents, requires much more judgment and discretion, than that of those which are always the…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what French Academy of Sciences is; names French Academy of Sciences.
Philosophers who discussed French Academy of Sciences
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
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- Mathematics
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- Meritocracy
- Physiology
- Scientific method
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Place in the tradition
Part of Pythagoreanism.
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