FONTENELLE’S ÉLOGES DES ACADÉMICIENS: CREATING THE SCIENTIFIC PERSONA

• Authors: Pichová Dagmar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In his Éloges des académiciens, French philosopher Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657 – 1757) used various strategies to build the credibility of scientists. In recent publications on the history of science, the concept of persona has been fruitfully explored. In this article, I focus on the construction of the scientific persona in Fontenelle’s Éloges, concentrating on the communication skills that scientists had to develop in order to advance new scientific discoveries. In what ways did Fontenelle rely on traditional rhetorical strategies to formulate and present a new scientific persona? How did the strategy of his Éloges relate to the notion of sociabilité and the social context of the Académie des sciences?

Keywords

EN

FONTENELLE; SCIENTIFIC PERSONA; SOCIABILITY; ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; FRENCH PHILOSOPHER

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1097 – 1110

Contributors

author

Pichová Dagmar

• Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-250X

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.10.3