Chercheur, observateur et monde savant au XVIIIe siècle : la recherche scientifique dans l'imaginaire de Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) / Marc J. Ratcliff, Marino L. Buscaglia.
Abstract:
This article analyses the history of the term "chercheur" from the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century, focusing, in particular, on the work of the naturalist and philosopher Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) and on reserch traditions related to the life scinces. Although the term was initially used in a pejorative sense, to describe an English Puritanical sect, it came to assume its modern meaning through a series of transformations
Nuncius A. 12, fasc. 2 (1997), p. 329-358