Paris Academy of Sciences Reformed
1698
Louis XIV's minister Pontchartrain reorganized the Paris Academy of Sciences as a body of salaried royal officials charged with advancing useful knowledge. The Academy became a model for state-supported science that would outlast its founders. Enlightenment science had its first fully bureaucratic European institution, and the French tradition of government-funded research that continues today was firmly established.
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Also in 1698 (4 other events on record)
- Savery Patents Steam Pump · Europe · Technology
- Darien Scheme Launched by Scotland · North America · Exploration
- Oman Expels the Portuguese from East Africa · Africa · War
- Streltsy Revolt · Europe · Politics
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.