Paralleling the map's formal pattern, the academicians' mode of construction relies on the cross-checking of measurements and observations carried out in the exterior.
Traditions that to some twentieth-century academicians seemed to be inevitable had, in fact, been crafted through a process of conflict and negotiation in previous centuries.
Understandably, these scenarios alarmed public figures and academicians.
With respect to the causes of gravity, the debate was purely argumentative, each sitting allowing one academician to present a paper on the subject.
Experimental work in general attracted little attention from the more theoretically oriented academicians.
When the divisions were organized, a system of academicians was also envisaged.
Let academicians argue their theoretical differences among themselves; these could have no bearing on the important questions to be decided in a court of law.
Their stories display the range of responses to the revolution, and together provide a group portrait of old academicians dealing with the new political order.
