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Me and Lane Couch are working on: French Academy of Sciences

Sources:


 * Science under control : the French Academy of Sciences, 1795-1914 / Maurice Crosland  (REQUESTED)

Crosland, Maurice P

Book/Journal | Cambridge University Press | 1992       (MOBIUS)

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 * Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences [electronic resource]: A Study in the Evolution of Musical Thought


 * Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris epitomized [electronic resource]. With the lives of the late members of that society. And a preface by Monsieur Fontenelle, secretary                                 (MOBIUS)    (ETEXT)


 * Science and immortality : the éloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699-1791) (ETEXT)
 * The anatomy of a scientific institution : the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803 (ETEXT)
 * https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.mst.edu/stable/2897911?pq-origsite=summon&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (JOURNAL/ARTICLE)
 * http://um9mh3ku7s.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+French+Academy+of+Sciences+As+a+Patron+of+the+Medical+Sciences+in+the+Early+Nineteenth+Century&rft.jtitle=Annals+of+Science&rft.au=Crosland%2C+Maurice&rft.date=2009-04-01&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis+Group&rft.issn=0003-3790&rft.eissn=1464-505X&rft.volume=66&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=247&rft.epage=265&rft_id=info:doi/10.1080%2F00033790802292638&rft.externalDocID=329430&paramdict=en-US

DRAFT FOR ARTICLE ADDITION:
I intend to strengthen the article by including information regarding the academy's strict selectiveness of it member's (notably Francois Magendie), it's specialization of subjects and it's contributions to medicine in this time, which isn't discussed in the current Wikipedia article.

DRAFT-The French had honed in on specializations of some practices, such as chemistry and botany. Rather than simply having a general knowledge of subjects like their British counterpart. Specializing in certain fields gave them a cutting-edge status for some subjects. . Also in 1795, The Academy determined these 10 titles to be their newly accepted branches of science study:


 * 1) Mathematics
 * 2) Mechanics
 * 3) Astronomy
 * 4) Physics
 * 5) Chemistry
 * 6) Minerolgy
 * 7) Botony
 * 8) Agriculture
 * 9) Anatomy and Zoology
 * 10) Medicine and Surgery.

The last two sections are bundled since there were many good candidates fit to be elected for those practices, and the competition was stiff. Some individuals like Francois Magendie had made stellar advancements in their selected fields of study, that warranted a possible addition of new fields. However, even someone like Magendie that had made breakthroughs in Physiology and impressed the First Class with his hands-on experimentation, could not get his study into its own category. Despite Magendie being one of the leading innovators of his time, it was still a battle for him to become an official member of the Academy, a feat he would later accomplish in 1821. He further improved the reverence of the academy when he produced the widely known "Bell-Magendie Law".

Review by K8shep (talk) 15:45, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
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Additional info and source on Magendie.
"Magendie was also a notorious vivisector, shocking even many of his contemporaries with the live dissections that he performed at public lectures in physiology. Richard Martin, an Irish MP, in introducing his famous bill banning animal cruelty in the United Kingdom, described Magendie's public dissection of a greyhound, in which the beast was nailed down ear and paw, half the nerves of its face dissected then left overnight for further dissection, calling Magendie a "disgrace to Society." There was a belief among British physicians, even those who defended animal experimentation, that Magendie purposely subjected his experimental animals to needless torture. A Quaker once visited him, questioning him about vivisection; according to Anne Fagot-Largeau's inaugural lesson at the College of France, he responded with much patience, argumenting the reasons of animal experimentation. Besides drawing sharp criticism from contemporaries in both Britain and France, later scientists critical of Magendie's methods included Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley."