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Cahiers François Viète, 2019 The purpose of our paper is, through the study of a corpus of data according to the analysis methods of the history of techniques field, to provide keys of comprehension to the evolution of the making of a musical instrument: the clarinet, and of the ...
Marion Weckerle
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Cahiers François Viète, 2022 The history of so-called alternative energies reveals profound differences. Our article focuses on a debate relating to techniques for collecting, storing and distributing solar energy for domestic heating, which was particularly lively during the 1970s ...
Clément Gaillard
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Pour une analyse systémique de la technique : exemple de la production de terre cuite architecturale
Cahiers François Viète, 2019 Conceptual principles of systemic theory are applied through the example of architectural terracotta. They show that the implementation of the technique, such as its representation or improvement, depends largely on social, cultural or economic factors ...
Cyril Lacheze
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Cahiers François Viète, 2022 This interview introduces Alain Gras and Charles-François Mathis, two researchers who use systemic approaches in energy history. With distinct scientific fields and objects, the two authors show the fruitfulness of these approaches to grasp contemporary ...
Anaël Marrec
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Twentieth Century Fertilizers in France from Natural Mixing to Artificial Making (1890-1970)
Cahiers François Viète, 2017 Compound fertilizer is a material composed of a mixture of primary nutrients. The physical constitution and presentation of compound fertilizer evolved from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
Philippe Martin
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Paint as a Material: The Transformation of Paint Chemistry and Technology in America (ca. 1880-1920)
Cahiers François Viète, 2017 This chapter recounts and analyzes the emergence of modern paint chemistry and technology in the United States. Until late in the 19th century, painting was above all a decorative art and craft, and chemists’ role in the paint trade was largely ...
Augustin Cerveaux
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La Boule, une histoire toulousaine de la microscopie électronique à haute tension
Cahiers François VièteThe history of electron microscopy in Toulouse is deeply connected to Professor Gaston Dupouy (1990-1985) who boosted the domain after WWII. There remains a very spectacular generator which fed a 1 million volts microscope. This installation, hosted in a
Sandrine Tomezak, Jean-Pierre Launay
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The Exotic Glasses of Rennes (France): Local Knowledge-Making in Global Telecommunication
Cahiers François Viète, 2017 This chapter tackles the question of local knowledge-making in changing scientific and economic environments in the field of advanced materials. It relies on a case study at the University of Rennes, in Western France, where the chemistry laboratory of ...
Pierre Teissier
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Réflexions sur quelques courants de pensée en épistémologie et philosophie des sciences et des techniques [PDF]
, 2008 National audienceOn peut considérer des phénomènes aussi complexes que le développement scientifique et technique de manière multiple. A côté d'approches récentes issues des sciences humaines, et qui mettent en avant l'usage ou le mode de gouvernance de ...
Faucheux, Michel +3 more
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L'éthique des paradigmes.: Mémoire et démémoire scientifique [PDF]
, 2009 version 1My aim in this paper is to assume that a discursive ethics of knowledge frames one of the main regulations of the academic discourses rhetorical criticism.
Paveau, Marie-Anne
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