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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Astronomer, Mystic, Revolutionary
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 44, part 4)
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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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