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⑥ Revolutionary Science▪On the politicization of science during the French Revolution

A History of Science by Dr Michiel Meulendijk

May 27, 202025:55Society & Culture

The French Revolution was the culmination of Enlightenment thinking. But rather than celebrating science, the revolutionaries suppressed ideas and killed the people that held them. In the last decade of the eighteenth ce...