A loaf here, a fish there
Roy Porter, 15 November 1984
Science and Medicine in France: The Emergence of Experimental Physiology 1790-1855
by John Lesch.
Harvard, 276 pp., £20, September 1984,0 674 79400 1 Show More
by John Lesch.
Harvard, 276 pp., £20, September 1984,
Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France
by Dorinda Outram.
Manchester, 299 pp., £25, October 1984,0 7190 1077 2 Show More
by Dorinda Outram.
Manchester, 299 pp., £25, October 1984,
“... Some measure of the ambitiousness of Outram’s undertaking can be gained by juxtaposing it with John Lesch’s account of the emergence of French experimental physiology – a first-rate specialist monograph which, while highly rewarding, nevertheless runs on automatic pilot along the well-plotted flight-paths of the ‘internal’ history of ... ”
