Book review: no need for geniuses: revolutionary science in the age of the guillotine by Steve Jones

Borowski, Audrey (2016) Book review: no need for geniuses: revolutionary science in the age of the guillotine by Steve Jones. LSE Review of Books (22 Sep 2016). Website.

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In No Need for Genuises: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine, Steve Jones explores Revolutionary Paris as a ‘city saturated in science’: a flurry of scientific innovation and discovery that seemed to herald the merger of the philosophes and the politiques – until the entrance of the guillotine. While at times hindered by lengthy meanders into the anecdotal, this volume nonetheless provides a glimpse of the intellectual world that gripped France at the time of the Revolution, writes Audrey Borowski.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2016 16:49
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68181

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