Charles Coulston Gillispie

Charles Coulston Gillispie ( born 1918 ) is an American historian of science.

Gillispie grew up in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) and graduated from Wesleyan University ( completion 1940). In 1949 he earned his doctorate at Harvard. From the 1960s he was Professor of the History of Science ( and founder of such a program within the Faculty of Humanities ) at Princeton University ( Dayton - Stockton Professor for the History of Science). He is best known as the editor of the monumental, multi-volume, 1970 to 1980 published Dictionary of Scientific Biography ( Charles Scribner's, New York). For his contribution to the dictionary also his biography of Pierre Simon de Laplace was born. He wrote next to it, especially on French history of science. He published, among others, the graphics of the French encyclopedia of Commerce and Industry of Denis Diderot and others, and occupied himself with Napoleon's Egyptian expedition, in which he re- edited the report of the expedition.

In 1984, he received the George Sarton Medal for History of Science. In 1997, the Balzan Prize he was awarded " for the extraordinary contribution he has made with its imaginative content and precise movements and the publication of his great reference book on the history and philosophy of science ."

Writings

  • Pierre Simon de Laplace 1749-1827 - a life in exact science, Princeton University Press 1997
  • 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, Princeton University Press, 1983 ( French edition, 1989)
  • Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime, Princeton University Press, 1980 ( he received the Pfizer Price )
  • Science and polity in France: the revolutionary and Napoleonic years, Princeton University Press 2004
  • Lazare Carnot Savant - a monograph Treating Carnot 's scientific work, with facsimile reproduction of his unpublished writings on mechanics and on the calculus, Princeton University Press, 1971 ( with an essay by Adolf Yushkevich )
  • Genesis and Geology - a study of the relation of scientific thought, natural theology and social opinion in Great Britain 1790-1850, Harvard University Press 1951, Harper 1959, 2nd edition Harvard UP, 1969
  • Edge of objectivity - an essay on the history of scientific ideas, Princeton University Press 1960, 1990
  • Essays and reviews in history and history of science in 2007
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