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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Astronomer, Mystic, Revolutionary

Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 44, part 4)
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1954

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    PREFACE

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    CONTENTS

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    I. EARLY LIFE Family, youth, studies, first contacts with astronomy, membership in the Académie des Sciences, the satellites of Jupiter

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    II. LITERARY BEGINNINGS The éloges of Charles V, Leibnitz, Corneille, Molière, and Lacaille

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    III. THE FIRST IMBROGLIO Jupiter's orbit, collaboration with Grand jean de Fouchy, the light of Jupiter's satellites, the fight for the secretariat, the quarrel with Lalande, Bailly at Chaillot

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    IV. THE GRAND ORDER The history of ancient astronomy, letters on the origin of the sciences, the Loge des Neuf Soeurs

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    V. RATIONALISM vs. ILLUMINISM The history of modern astronomy, letters on the Atlantis of Plato, literary fame, the essay on fables, membership in the French Academy

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    VI. ANIMAL MAGNETISM Mesmer, Deslon, the Royal Commission on animal magnetism, Bailly's letter on imagination among animals

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    VII. NEW CONJECTURES ON ANTIQUITY The éloges of Gresset and Cook, the Academy of Inscriptions, the Indian astronomy

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    VIII. REFORM BY MANDATE Commissions on the hospitals, slaughterhouses, arts and crajts

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    IX. BAILLY, "REVOLUTIONNAIRE SANS LE SAVOIR" The Estâtes General, Bailly Mayor of Paris, constitutionalism vs. republicanism, the fall of the libérais, Bailly's trial and death

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    CONCLUSION

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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    INDEX

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