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Pour une paléontologie de l’histoire. L’ethnologie anglaise à l’âge romantique
Cahiers François Viète, 2005 Material monuments, the symbolic archive of societies, and languages are considered to be “fossils of civilization” attesting to the intellectual and moral evolution of the first nations.
Claude Blanckaert
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La géologie, première science historique ?
Cahiers François Viète, 2005 Although Robert Hooke, as early as 1667, was the first to advocate the search for archives in Nature, it was his contemporary Nicolas Sténon who used them to reconstruct the geological history of Tuscany.
Gabriel Gohau
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La géologie expérimentale : une voie fondatrice de la géologie moderne
Cahiers François Viète, 2015 In 1867, Auguste Daubrée (1814-1896) published a report on the progress of experimental geology, followed in 1879 by his Études synthétiques de Géologie expérimentale. This experimental geology was developed from the end of the 18th century in support of
Pierre Savaton
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La réception du darwinisme en France. Un cas exemplaire : Darwin et de Quatrefage
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 Darwinism was not accepted in France as easily as it was in other countries. The question has been raised as to the reason for this delay. The case of Armand de Quatrefages is exemplary in this search.
Goulven Laurent
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Matière et vie chez Diderot et Voltaire
Cahiers François Viète, 2005 Faced with the postulate of atheistic materialism according to which matter combines, by a continuous process, with ever higher levels of organisation, Voltaire expresses his conviction that the structures, properties and behaviour of living beings are ...
Gerhardt Stenger
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Cahiers François Viète, 2018 The history of science tells us about new concepts and theoretical models which lead previous ones to become obsolete. We would like to show that new theoretical patterns do not affect cultural representations: they may not produce any change; in some ...
Frédéric Le Blay
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De la prédiction des marées : entre calcul, observations et mécanisation (1831-1876)
Cahiers François Viète, 2016 The prediction of tides is as much about the concrete problems associated with navigation as it is about the scientific representation of this phenomenon. For a long time separated, these two aspects were brought together after the founding work of Isaac
Marie-José Durand-Richard
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Cahiers François Viète, 2020 This article provides an analysis of the academic controversy concerning research on solar geoengineering technologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia since 2006.
Jean-Daniel Collomb
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Les cartes géologiques départementales : entre savants et ingénieurs des mines
Cahiers François Viète, 2011 The first detailed geological mapping of France was first and foremost an individual and local work, heir to the geognostic ideas of the late 18th century and the first attempts at modern geological maps. However, these departmental maps were part of the
Pierre Savaton
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Les cartes géologiques du département de Loire-Inférieure
Cahiers François Viète, 2015 Detailed geological mapping began in France at the beginning of the 19th century with the departmental maps, the work of local scholars and mining engineers. The Loire-Inférieure was mapped successively by the first curator of the Nantes Museum, François-
Pascal Rétif
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