• Search Research Projects
  • Search Researchers
  • How to Use
  1. Back to previous page

"Autonomy" of savants in the 18th century : what we know from the financial records of the Royal Academy of Science in Paris

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00255
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo (2022)
Nagoya University (2018-2021)

Principal Investigator

Oki Sayaka  東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 教授 (60536879)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywordsパリ王立科学アカデミー / 財務会計史料 / 学問の自由 / 学問の自律 / ビュフォン / コンドルセ / ラヴォワジエ / レオミュル / 財務会計資料 / 学者の自律 / フォントネル / エロージュ / 自律 / 科学アカデミー / 財務会計記録 / 科学の経済史 / 科学の社会史 / 18世紀フランス
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines royal investment in scientific research in 18th-century France through the financial history of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. Due to scattered and incomplete records, we reconstructed the data from related documents in various archives. Through this financial history, we depicted the formation of a modern academic system where the State invested unrestricted public funds in savants(scholars), from a patronage system to a system of public investment. We also confirmed that the savants played an active role as actors in it, adapting to the financial system of the day, as well as embracing the ideal of academic autonomy. Some of them even lent their own funds to the State and became creditors to both the king and the academy. This research resulted in several invited lectures and the submission of articles to important journals for studying 18th-century France.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

公的資金に支援されながらも、支援者である国家や宗教団体の意思に左右されない自律性を有する学術集団を作り上げることは、近代的な科学研究制度が発展する上で欠かせない条件であった。研究能力の高い学者共同体を持ち、かつ革命により共和制を作り上げたフランスはその条件を先駆的に達成した地域とされていたが、史料保存状況の悪さゆえにその実態の詳細が明らかになっていなかった。本研究はその問題に取り組み複数の招待講演の対象となった。また、一八世紀研究やフランス革命期研究の重要な国際誌への論文投稿にもつながった。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 4 results) Book (3 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] アカデミーと「自由」--18世紀パリ王立科学アカデミーの理念と実際2023

    • Author(s)
      隠岐さや香
    • Journal Title

      ゲシヒテ

      Volume: 16

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Les finances de l’Academie Royale des Sciences : histoire des tentatives d’obtention d’un financement durable pour les institutions scientifiques2022

    • Author(s)
      Sayaka Oki
    • Journal Title

      Annales historiques de la Revolution francaise

      Volume: 1 Pages: 29-53

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Le t?tonnement de l’expertise scientifique moderne2019

    • Author(s)
      Oki Sayaka
    • Journal Title

      Dix-huitieme siecle

      Volume: n°51 Issue: 1 Pages: 489-489

    • DOI

      10.3917/dhs.051.0489

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Le tatonnement de l'expertise scientifique moderne. Les eloges de Condorcet comme lieux de reflexion sur le role social des savants2019

    • Author(s)
      Sayaka Oki
    • Journal Title

      Dix-Huitieme siecle

      Volume: 51

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Ni amateurs, ni bureaucraes : les tentatives de l’Academie royale des sciences de Paris pour obtenir un financement durable assurant l’ideal savant2023

    • Author(s)
      Sayaka Oki
    • Organizer
      Seminaire commun Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] アカデミーと「自由」-- 18 世紀パリ王立科学アカデミーの理念と実際2021

    • Author(s)
      隠岐さや香
    • Organizer
      ドイツ現代史学会 シンポジウム「学問(教育)と政治の関係を考える」
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] パリ王立科学アカデミーと『自由』2021

    • Author(s)
      隠岐さや香
    • Organizer
      日本18世紀学会第43回全国大会共通論題「学問・芸術の制度と『自由』-- 18世紀におけるアカデミー・大学・官僚機構」
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Les finances de l’Academie royale des sciences : histoire des tentatives pour obtenir un financement durable pour les institutions scientifiques2020

    • Author(s)
      Sayaka Oki
    • Organizer
      Journee d’etude. Financer les sciences au tournant des XVIIIe et XIXe siecles
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] L’autonomie du ‘savant’ sa negociation et sa reformulation au cours du XVIIIe siecle2019

    • Author(s)
      Sayaka Oki
    • Organizer
      15th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Revisiting ‘Moral science’ in late 19th-century Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Sayaka Oki
    • Organizer
      East and West. Crossing sights in history of ‘Modern’ culture International conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Science, politics and money: the treasury committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris in the 18th century2018

    • Author(s)
      Sayaka Oki
    • Organizer
      Young Scholar Seminar 2018 for History of Economic Thought society
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 「役に立たない」研究の未来2021

    • Author(s)
      初田 哲男、大隅 良典、隠岐 さや香、柴藤 亮介
    • Total Pages
      216
    • Publisher
      柏書房
    • ISBN
      9784760153480
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] コンドルセ 未完の啓蒙思想家2021

    • Author(s)
      隠岐さや香
    • Publisher
      岩波書店
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 文系と理系はなぜ分かれたか2018

    • Author(s)
      隠岐さや香
    • Total Pages
      256
    • Publisher
      星海社新書
    • ISBN
      9784065123843
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Seminaire comun IHMC 2021-2022

    • URL

      https://ihmc.ens.psl.eu/Ni-amateurs-ni-bureaucrates-les.html?lang=fr

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report

URL: 

Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

Information User Guide FAQ News Terms of Use Attribution of KAKENHI

Powered by NII kakenhi