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This special issue focuses on two ambitions of energy history: one, to grasp energy as a global feature, and the other, to distinguish contingencies and determinations in past energy trajectories.
Anaël Marrec
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L’Umweltraum de Jakob von Uexküll. Le signe, l’espace, le temps et les philosophes
This article proposes an epistemological analysis of the concepts of Subject, Sign, Space and Time as used by Jakob von Uexküll at the end of his work. Based on the first chapters of A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans (1934) and on Theory of ...
Yannick Campion
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Stratigraphy studies the arrangement of sedimentary layers in order to establish correlations between them at a distance and to assign them an age. To do this, it uses different types of signals.
Claude Babin
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La prise en compte du temps en chimie
When chemists are interested in problems relating to environmental chemistry or in that remarkable phase of the transformation of matter which corresponds to the transition from the non-living to the living, they are obliged to take into account the ...
Jacques Reisse
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Interdisciplinarité ou mélange des genres en histoire des sciences ?
This paper develops methodological reflections based on my own practice of the history of science, without claiming them as a model. Following a brief historical sketch of the institutionalisation process of the history of science and its oscillation ...
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
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La naissance technique d'une industrie : la conserverie de sardines à l’huile
The method used to preserve sardines in oil is simple. It was developed as early as 1810 and has remained unchanged to this day. Although the manufacturing processes have been improved, the various steps to achieve the finished product have remained ...
Jean-Christophe Fichou
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This article develops two case studies of wave energy devices projects during the interwar period in France: Le Minou’s ram (1925-1927) and the Cattaneo ondo-pump (1925-1945).
Anaël Marrec
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Faut-il distinguer cours du temps et flèche du temps ?
This article first examines —and then criticizes— our customary way of betting on time, its course and its “arrow”, three notions that are commonly (and abusively) confused.
Étienne Klein
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The energy transition towards a low-carbon regime is a critical challenge for the 21st century. It is not only a matter of techniques, but also of social organization and cultural representations.
Antoine Missemer
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Les sciences des causes passées
This volume is the result of a colloquium that took place in two sessions. The first session was devoted to the history of certain palaetiological sciences: the aim was to identify these sciences, to understand how and when they were born, and to study ...
Gabriel Gohau, Stéphane Tirard
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