%0 Journal Article
%T Festschrift: At the Boundary between Science and Industrial Practices: Applied Science, Arts, and Technique in France
%A Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
%D 2020
%V 
%N Spring 2020
%K Arts
%K Encyclopédie
%K Industrial science
%K technique
%K technonomy
%X In response to Robert Bud’s historical inquiry of applied science, this paper discusses whether it has been adopted in France. I argue that although the term was occasionally used in France it has never been successful because of the prestige of arts in the encyclopaedic movement.
%Z Two centuries earlier Bernard Palissy (1510–1589) claimed the primacy of practice over theory. He wrote a dialogue about water between two fictional personae: Theory the savant ‘as stupid today as he was yesterday’ (‘aussi grand bête aujourd’hui comme hier’) and Practice ‘the clever and creative savant’. (Bernard Palissy, ‘Discours admirals de la nature des eaux et fontaines…’, in Oeuvres complètes, Paris, Albert Blanchard, 1961, p 190–223)
%Z The link between the popularity of the phrase ‘pure of science’ in the German world and the influence of Kantianism is problematic because ‘pure’ in Kant’s terminology means a priori as opposed to empiric. Therefore this adjective cannot refer to experimental natural sciences. Kant himself, in Critique of Pure Reason, considered chemistry as an improper science because its principles could not be derived a priori. He nevertheless changed his view in a later work on the basis of Lavoisier’s chemistry.
%Z The revival of the encyclopaedic ideal in the interwar period of is one of the major themes the multi-volume project of the Encyclopédie française, edited by Lucien Febvre from the 1930s to the 1950s. 
%I The Science Museum Group
%@ 2054-5770
%B eng
%U https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/arts-and-technique-in-france/
%J Science Museum Group Journal