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L’histoire des sciences de la vie, vue de l’intérieur
Cahiers François Viète, 2020 Michel Morange has had a dual career as a biologist as well as a historian and philosopher of science, at the Institut Pasteur and École normale supérieure.
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Histoire des concepts de la vie extra-terrestre
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 Exobiology (or Bioastronomy or Astrobiology—with a few nuances) is a recent science in its own right, the result of the meeting of several disciplines (astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, palaeontology), at the same time as the conquest of space was ...
Florence Raulin Cerceau
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Cahiers François Viète, 2019 We study three fragmentary French translations and a series of French prints of Lilium medicinae, the major work of physician Bernard of Gordon. With these manuscripts, we are led to question the reasons for their translation into French, as well as the ...
Adeline Sanchez
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De l’automate aux neurosciences
Cahiers François Viète, 2002 The idea of a machine imitating man for all or part of his biological and mental functions has very ancient mythical roots. Since the 16th century, with the mechanism, we have seen a rationalisation of this idea.
Gérard Chazal
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Le souci métaphysique de l’infini dans la construction de la science classique
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 We cannot study the 17th century and in particular the first developments of classical science by simply applying our modern reading grids. Indeed, as we show in this article by focusing on the concept of infinity, it is important not to conceive of it ...
Michel Blay
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Présentation. Exobiologie, aspects historiques et épistémologiques
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 The definition of exobiology – the study of the origins, evolution and distribution of life in the universe, as well as of related structures and processes – raises the problem of the link between current and past studies on the origins of terrestrial ...
Florence Raulin Cerceau +1 more
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Cahiers François Viète, 2003 On Earth, the transition from matter to life took place with chemical systems capable of self-reproduction and evolution. Two avenues are being explored to understand this transition: the synthesis of artificial life in a test tube and the search for a ...
André Brack
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Les paradoxes de la relativité
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 By reading the main questions raised and the answers given by the two most famous paradoxes of the relativity theory, we propose, in the following, to answer the following question.
Sylviane Bidal
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Cahiers François Viète, 2002 The title ‘A Century of Genetics’ is both a nod to the recently published book by the American philosopher Evelyn Fox Keller and an acknowledgement that the development of genetics has had as much, if not more, of an impact on the 20th century than the ...
Michel Morange
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La preuve par l’expérimentation dans l’Antiquité
Cahiers François Viète, 2002 The invention of the “experimental method” is usually dated to the 19th century and is associated with the name of Claude Bernard. But it is no exaggeration to say that this notion dates back to the mid-century BC, when animal vivisection was ...
Armelle Debru
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