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The "New Science" and the Sea - Academies, Learned Societies and Marine Knowledge in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Vandersmissen, Jan
20126th International Congress of Maritime History
 

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Keywords :
maritime history; history of science; academies
Abstract :
[en] Academies and learned societies were the main tools for the application of the “new science” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This paper aims to contribute to the research on marine science, nautical knowledge and empire building by studying academies and learned societies in their role of bureaus of investigation of the colonial reality. As a fact, institutions such as the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society of London played an important role as mediators in the development of various models of “science policies”. This paper focuses on the implication of these institutions in overseas scientific exploration in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It stresses the specific importance of “academic” voyages for the development of navigational techniques, from Huygens and Hooke to Maskelyne and Harrison. This comparative study thus tries to show how through these new centers of knowledge production a scholarly interest for day-to-day nautical practices influenced the scientized perfection of navigational techniques.
Research center :
CHST - Centre d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques - ULiège
Disciplines :
History
Author, co-author :
Vandersmissen, Jan ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'histoire des sciences et des techniques
Language :
English
Title :
The "New Science" and the Sea - Academies, Learned Societies and Marine Knowledge in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Publication date :
05 July 2012
Number of pages :
18
Event name :
6th International Congress of Maritime History
Event organizer :
IMEHA
Event place :
Gent, Belgium
Event date :
2-6 July 2012
Audience :
International
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