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La nouvelle science et la science antique : l’échec d’un désaveu de paternité ?

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  • Chantal Grell
Chantal Grell
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ds-15449

Published 2025-06-10

Keywords

  • Anciens,
  • Modernes,
  • Science,
  • Belles Lettres,
  • Philosophical irony,
  • Mixité,
  • Physique,
  • Histoire naturelle,
  • Aristote,
  • Pline
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How to Cite

Grell, C. (2025). La nouvelle science et la science antique : l’échec d’un désaveu de paternité ?. Diciottesimo Secolo, 57–69. https://doi.org/10.36253/ds-15449

Copyright (c) 2025 Chantal Grell

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Abstract

One of the effects of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the polemics against the Ancients was to detach from the Belles Lettres the sciences and arts where the «progress of the human spirit» surely overcomes. This victory led to many protests. In the second half of the 18th century, attempts were made to reassess the contributions of the Ancients, notably Pliny and Aristotle, and the large debt owed to them.

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