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- Title
The Social Architect and the Myopic Mason: The Spatial Politics of the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
- Authors
Lee, Paula Young
- Abstract
The article explores the cultural tensions shaping the progress and perception of the natural sciences at the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France during the nineteenth century. In the first half of the century, the museum was both workplace and home to functionalist Georges Cuvier and morphologist Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, whose doctrinal differences became entangled with political dialogues regarding social reform. The public critiqued the museum's buildings as expressions of their anatomical dispute. The Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 pushed these critiques forward, suggesting to some observers that true reform of the natural sciences would begin by reforming the museum's architectural program.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); FRANCE; NATURAL history museums; MUSEUMS; NINETEENTH century; CUVIER, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832; GEOFFROY Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844; SOCIAL problems; REVOLUTIONS; ARCHITECTURE
- Publication
Science in Context (0269-8897), 2007, Vol 20, Issue 4, p601
- ISSN
0269-8897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0269889707001469