NO NEED FOR GENIUSES: WHEN SCIENCE RULED AND POLITICS RUINED IT

Book ID/图书代码： 11701216B87176

English Summary/英文概要： France in the late eighteenth century was a scientific power of a preeminence never seen before or since. Many of those who gave it that position – Ampère, Lavoisier, Fourier, Lamarck, Coulomb, Coriolis, Gay-Lussac, Lagrange, Laplace, Cuvier, Condorcet, Carnot and more – are household names to many of today’s chemists, physicists and biologists. However, few scientists, even in France, are aware of quite what an important role those savants played in historical events – and what a heavy price some paid for so doing.

The French Revolution of 1789 was a pivotal moment in science as much as in politics and is a unique example of a period in which the two endeavours became inextricably tangled. The Revolution has been covered in many popular works but most scarcely mention the central role of science in the event. Interweaving the story of dramatic scientific discoveries with the terrifying events of the French Revolution, Steve Jones reveals what happens when politics and science collide.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 18世纪后期的法国，科学力量获得了前所未有的显赫地位，这其中包括许多著名人物——安培、拉瓦西、傅里叶、拉马克、科里奥利、率萨克、拉格朗日、拉普拉斯、居维叶、孔多赛、卡诺等等——这些都是当今化学家、物理学家、生物学家熟知的名字。但很少有科学家，甚至在法国，会意识到这些学者在各种历史事件中起到了多么重要的作用，而其中一些人因此付出了巨大的代价。

1789年的法国大革命是政治的关键时刻，对科学来说也同样重要，这是一个特殊的时期，两股力量复杂地交织在一起。许多流行作品中都会涉及法国大革命，但大部分作品中几乎从不涉及科学在其中起到的关键作用。本书将瞩目的科学发现故事与法国大革命的恐怖事件交织在一起，告诉读者政治与科学产生冲突时会发生什么。(LYR)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Steve Jones，伦敦大学学院遗传学名誉教授，曾在美国、澳大利亚、非洲的多所大学执教。1991年发表BBC Reith系列讲座，并经常参加电台或电视节目，是《每日电讯》的常驻专栏作家。1997年获得英国皇家学会法拉第奖章。

Steve Jones is Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College, London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He delivered the BBC Reith Lectures in 1991, appears frequently on radio and television and is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph. In 1997 he won the Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science. UNTITLED is his tenth book.

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