THÉOPHRASTE RENAUDOT’S PREFACE TO THE PUBLISHED VOLUME of the first hundred conferences held at the Bureau d’Adresse explicitly heralds their unusual character. The goal of his conferences, Renaudot claims, is to rescue the sciences from scholarly obscurity and to make things intelligible without “the unpleasant and perpetual task of first surmounting the difficulties of exotic words.” Like many works written in the period of the scientific revolution, the tenor of the proceedings is deliberately iconoclastic. Participants eschew the authority of established figures except on special occasions, because, as Renaudot proclaims in his preface, “if any man speaks reason, it ought to suffice without another’s authority to recommend it.” [download]
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