Charles Coulston Gillispie

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Coulston Gillispie was an American historian of science. He was the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University. He was succeeded by Arno J. Mayer. Life The son of Raymond Livingston Gillispie and Virginia Coulston, Gillispie grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1940 with a major in Chemistry and gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1949. He also served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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Dictionary of scientific biography (1970) (1308)
Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime (1982) (143)
Book Reviews: The Edge of Objectivity. An essay in the history of scientific ideas (1960) (105)
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 : a life in exact science (1997) (77)
Lazare Carnot, Savant (1972) (64)
Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850. (1952) (56)
The Natural History of Industry (1957) (48)
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry (1961) (47)
The Sociology of Science. Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Robert K. Merton. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1973. xxxii, 606 pp. $12.50 (1974) (41)
History of the social sciences (1988) (28)
The Discovery of the Leblanc Process (1957) (20)
Lazare and Sadi Carnot. A Scientific and Filial Relationship, 2014, Springer. (2014) (17)
Genesis and geology : a study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850 (1971) (17)
Some Recent 'Big Pictures' in the History of Science (2002) (16)
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years (2014) (16)
The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784: With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads (1983) (15)
The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America (1983) (15)
Science and politics, with special reference to revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1987) (15)
Science and Secret Weapons Development in Revolutionary France, 1792-1804: A Documentary History (1992) (14)
Paléontologie et Evolution en France 1800–1860: Une Histoire des Idées de Cuvier et Lamarck à Darwin (1989) (14)
Lazare and Sadi Carnot (2013) (13)
The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784; With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads (1983) (13)
Lazare Carnot Savant Et Sa Contribution À la Théorie de L’Infini Mathématique (1979) (12)
Recovery Poetry 101: The Use of Collaborative Poetry in a Dual-Diagnosis Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program (2001) (10)
THE SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE OF NAPOLEON'S EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN (1994) (9)
Science in the French revolution (1959) (9)
Monuments of Egypt : the Napoleonic edition : the complete archaeological plates from la Description de l'Egypte (1987) (9)
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Digressions sur les anciens et les modernes. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Robert Shackleton (1956) (9)
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot (1960) (9)
Remarks on Social Selection as a Factor in the Progressivism of Science (1968) (9)
Mémoires inédits ou anonymes de Laplace sur la théorie des erreurs, les polynômes de Legendre et la philosophie des probabilités (1979) (9)
The Encyclopédie and the Jacobin Philosophy of Science: A Study in Ideas and Consequences (2006) (8)
Le savant et la tempête: Étudier l'atmosphère et prévoir le temps au XIXe siècle (review) (2010) (7)
On Principles in Sadi Carnot’s Thermodynamics (2014) (7)
The Nature of Science (1962) (7)
Poetry therapy techniques applied to a recreation/adult education group for the mentally ill (2003) (6)
Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime / Charles Coulston Gillispie (1980) (5)
Science and polity in France (1980) (5)
The Formation of Lamarck's Evolutionary Theory (2006) (5)
The Work of Élie Halévy: A Critical Appreciation (1950) (5)
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 (2018) (4)
Lazare Carnot savant : a monograph treating Carnot's scientific work, with facsimile reproduction of his unpublished writings on mechanics and on the calculus (1971) (4)
A Case Report Illustrating the Use of Creative Writing As A Therapeutic Recreation Intervention in a Dualdiagnosis Residential Treatment Center (2003) (4)
The use of collaborative poetry as a method of deepening interpersonal communication among adolescent girls (2005) (4)
Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science (2007) (3)
Physick and Philosophy: A Study of the Influence of the College of Physicians of London upon the Foundation of the Royal Society (1947) (3)
A Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and industry : manufacturing and the technical arts in plates selected from "L'Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" of Denis Diderot (1960) (3)
Book Review:The Physical World of the Greeks S. Sambursky (1958) (2)
L’Aérostation au temps des Lumières (review) (2011) (2)
A Professional Life in the History of Science (2006) (2)
Notice biographique de Lavoisier par Madame Lavoisier (1956) (2)
A History of Technology, Volume III, from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, c. 1500--c. 1750. Charles Singer , E. J. Holmyard , A. R. Hall , Trevor I. Williams , Y. Peel , J. R. Petty (1959) (2)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society: Atlanta, 7-10 November 1996 (1997) (1)
Des polytechniciens en Egypte (1999) (1)
Histoire des Sciences et Épistémologie (1987) (1)
Corridors of power (1992) (1)
Eloge: Maurice Daumas, 1910-1984 (1985) (1)
Book Review:Patrick Matthew and Natural Selection: Nineteenth Century Gentleman-Farmer, Naturalist and Writer W. J. Dempster (1984) (1)
Éloge: Carl B. Boyer, November 3, 1906 - April 26, 1976 (1976) (1)
Shmuel Sambursky: A Physicist Looks at Greek Science (2006) (1)
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Volume I, Pierre Abailard--L. S. Berg; Volume 2, Hans Berger--Christoph Buys Ballot (1973) (1)
Book Review:Diderot and Descartes, a Study of Scientific Naturalism in the Enlightenment Aram Vartanian (1953) (1)
Book Review:Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt Anne Marie Claire Godlewska (2001) (1)
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: A Facinating Reference: Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1972) (1)
The Distorted Meridian (2007) (1)
Science Since Babylon. Derek J. de Solla Price. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1961. 149 pp. $4.50 (1961) (1)
Palisot De Beauvois on the Americans (2006) (1)
Book-Review - Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1985) (1)
L'Ecole Polytechnique (2008) (1)
De l'espionnage industriel à la veille technologique (review) (2006) (1)
Towards an Historiography of Science. Joseph Agassi (1964) (1)
Chapter III. The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science: Rise and Fall (2004) (1)
Scholarship Epitomized (1991) (1)
Monuments de l'Egypte : l'édition impériale de 1809 (1988) (1)
De l’histoire naturelle à la biologie : relations entre les programmes de recherche de Cuvier, Lamarck et Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1997) (1)
Revolutionary Travelogue (1970) (0)
The cipher of the zodiac (2012) (0)
Notes & Correspondence (1960) (0)
Book Review:The Origins and Early Development of the Heavy Chemical Industry in France John Graham Smith (1981) (0)
Michael R. Lynn, The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820 . London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. ix+240. ISBN 978-1-84893-016-2. £60.00 (hardback). (2011) (0)
E. J. Dijksterhuis: Mechanization of the World Picture (2006) (0)
Book Review:Scientists and Amateurs: A History of the Royal Society Dorothy Stimson (1950) (0)
Dictionary of scientific biography. Vol._11: A._Pitcairn - B._Rush. (1975) (0)
Dictionary of scientific biography, Vol._9: A._T. Macrobius - K._F. Naumann. (1974) (0)
English Ideas of the University in the 19th Century (2006) (0)
Final Remarks on the Scientific Relationship Between Père et Fils (2014) (0)
Science and the Literary Imagination: Voltaire and Goethe (2006) (0)
Eloge: Charles Scribner, Jr., 13 July 1921-11 November 1995 (1997) (0)
The cipher of the zodiac (2012) (0)
Three Essays@@@The Unity of Knowledge: Reflections on the Universities of Cambridge and London@@@Leadership in Education@@@Idleness as a Part of Education (1951) (0)
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution. Gertrude Himmelfarb (1960) (0)
Le Fonds Seguin à Privas (1986) (0)
Recent Trends hi the Historiography of Science (0)
Patricia Fara, Science: A Four Thousand Year History . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+408. ISBN 978-0-19-922689-4. £20.00 (hardback). (2009) (0)
Oeuvres Philosophiques de Cabanis. Cabanis (1959) (0)
L'exposition du système du Monde : Deux cents ans après sa publication, retour sur le célèbre ouvrage de Laplace (1996) (0)
CONCLUSION: l'Envoi (2006) (0)
Book Review:De la richesse territoriale du Royaume de France Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Jean-Claude Perrot (1989) (0)
Un Américain dans le salon de Mme Lambert et la bibliothèque de la rue Colbert (2007) (0)
Studies and Heritage of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (2014) (0)
Maurice Daumas, 1910-1984 (1985) (0)
Atop Mont Blanc (2008) (0)
Butterfield's Origins and the Scientific Revolution (2012) (0)
Science in the Eye of the Beholder, 1789-1820* (2006) (0)
Salomon Bochner as Historian of Mathematics and Science (1989) (0)
Marshall Clagett Faculty file: recommendation letters (1963) (0)
Psychological and Sociological Origins of Modern Science (1963) (0)
Book Review (2006) (0)
The Fonds Seguin at Privas (1986) (0)
Diderot: By Arthur M. Wilson. Oxford University Press, 1972. 935 p (1975) (0)
The professionalization of science : France 1770-1830, compared to the United States 1910-1970, the third Neesima Lectures, September 18 and 19, 1981, Divinity Hall Chapel, Doshisha University (1983) (0)
Book Review:Reaumur's Memoirs on Steel and Iron Rene Antoine Ferchault Reaumur, Anneliese Grunhaldt Sisco (1957) (0)
Thomas S. Kuhn: The Nature of Science (2006) (0)
Histoire Générale des Sciences. vol. 3, La science contemporaine. part 1, Le XIX' Siècle. René Taton, Ed. Presses Universitaries de France, Paris, 1961. vii + 775 pp. Illus. Plates (1962) (0)
Social Science and Probabilistic Analysis in Physics (2006) (0)
Dictionary of scientific biography. Vol._V Emil Fischer - Gottlieb Haberlandt. (1972) (0)
Biographical Sketch of Lazare Carnot (2014) (0)
Book Review: Chemistry, pharmacy and revolution in France, 1777–1809 (2007) (0)
ReCreation Intervention in a'Dual- diagnosis Residential Treatment . Center (2009) (0)
Three Essays: Idleness as a Part of Education (1951) (0)
Administrative Documents (1955) (0)
otto mayr. Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1986. Pp. xviii, 265. $30.00 (1988) (0)
History and Historiography of Sadi Carnot’s Thermodynamics (2014) (0)
Enlightenment Science and the State in Revolutionary France: The Legacy of (2017) (0)
Administrative Documents (1954) (0)
VI.23 Pierre-Simon Laplace (2010) (0)
An Engineering Justification of Algebra and the Calculus (2014) (0)
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Manufacturing and the Technical Arts. (1960) (0)
Antoine Lavoisier, Scientist, Economist, Social Reformer. By Douglas McKie, Reader in the History of Science in the University of London. [Life of Science Library, Number 25.] (New York: Henry Schuman. 1952. Pp. 440. $6.00.) (1953) (0)
The Science of Machines (2014) (0)
The Neesima Lectures I: The Coming of Age of American Science, 1910-1970 (2006) (0)
Science Since Babylon . Derek J. de Solla Price. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1961. 149 pp. $4.50. (1961) (0)
A Historical Epistemology of Thermodynamics. The Mathematics in Sadi Carnot’s Theory (2014) (0)
History of science: perceptions. (1980) (0)
The Neesima Lectures II: The Flourishing of French Science, 1770-1830 (2006) (0)
The Carnot Approach and the Mechanics of Work and Power, 1803–1829 (2014) (0)
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Society (1975) (0)
Book Review:Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to His Time Noel Gilroy Annan (1953) (0)
The Development of Carnot’s Mechanics (2014) (0)
What are the Scientific Roots of Sadi Carnot’s Cycle? (2014) (0)
Book Review:Cartography in France, 1660-1848: Science, Engineering, and Statecraft Josef Konvitz (1987) (0)
The idea of revolution: revolution in science. (1985) (0)

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