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SUMMARY:The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société 
 Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment - Valentine Delrue (Ghent 
 University & Ca' Foscari University)
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CONTACT:Silvia M. Marchiori
DESCRIPTION:In the eighteenth century\, meteorology was a site of lively d
 ebate and discussion as multiple visions of weather knowledge were propose
 d. Despite this diversity in meteorological conceptions and methods\, howe
 ver\, individuals and institutions involved in creating weather knowledge 
 often shared the goal of managing living bodies. Therefore\, to better und
 erstand the disciplinary dynamics of meteorology in this context\, Valenti
 ne Delrue will look at different (bio-political) projects that aimed to ad
 vance meteorological knowledge. Through an analysis of their development\,
  exchanges\, and debates\, Valentine aims to understand the different conc
 eptions of meteorology that lie at the heart of these various undertakings
 . Perhaps the most well-known of these French projects was the network of 
 meteorological correspondents of the Société Royale de Médecine (1778
 –1793). This network was managed by the priest and meteorologist Louis C
 otte (1740–1815)\, who himself had been appointed by the permanent secre
 tary of the Société Royale de Médecine\, Félix Vicq d'Azyr (1748–179
 4). The network's general aim was to improve the understanding and managem
 ent of diseases across France by collecting and analyzing observations sen
 t every three months by medical correspondents. While on the surface level
 \, Cotte's ambitions might have lined up with those of the Société and c
 orrespondents\, their different ways of observing reveal telling differenc
 es in how they related to meteorology as a developing discipline.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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