154 BIOGRAPHIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN 



Sciences Morales efc Politiques (for moral philosophy 

 and politics). 



The Acad6mie des Sciences was founded by Louis XIV. 

 the Royal Society of London being founded, about the 

 same time, by Charles II. 



During the siege of Paris, Berthelot was President of 

 the Scientific Committee of National Defence, and was 

 occupied in the manufacture of explosives, and in 1883 

 he published, in two volumes, his work, Sur la Force 

 des Matieres Explosives. It is a valuable contribution 

 to the science of the subject. 



His other books are: Science et Philosophic (1886); 

 La Revolution Chimique Lavoisier (1890); Traite 

 Pratique de Calorimetrie Chimique (1893) ; Thermo- 

 chimie Donnees et Lois Numeriques, in two volumes 

 (1897); La Synthese Chimique (1897); Science et 

 Morale (1897); Renan et Berthelot, Correspondance 

 (1898); Chimie Vegetale et Agricole, in four volumes 

 (1899); Chimie Animate, Principes Chimiques de la 

 Production de la Chaleur chez les fitres Vivants, in two 

 volumes (1899); Science et Education (1901); and 

 several volumes on historical chemistry which will be 

 alluded to later in this chapter. 



Berthelot was also a politician, and he formed part of 

 the Cabinet of Monsieur Goblet, as Ministre de 1'Instruc 

 tion Publique in 1885, and was also a member of the 



