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À propos des Époques de la Nature de Buffon : temps géologique réversible ou irréversible

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2003
In his Epochs of Nature (1778), Buffon presents us with a history of the Earth, divided into an irreversible sequence of epochs corresponding to the successive times of cooling of the globe.
Gabriel Gohau
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Des jeux de la Nature aux médailles de la Création

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2005
After having been considered for a long time as “games of nature” or as produced by the action of a “plastic force”, fossils were finally recognised towards the end of the 17th century, mainly thanks to Sténon, as the remains of living beings. With Hooke,
Jean Gaudant
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L’émergence de la notion de limite dans la géologie du xixe siècle : d’une vision catastrophiste à un cadre transformiste

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2018
At the beginning of the 19th century, a major paleontological discontinuity evocative of a catastrophic event, was identified between Cretaceous and Tertiary formations The discontinuity was discussed along the then two main conceptions of the history of
Françoise Dreyer
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Quelques éléments sur la conception des objets et des méthodes mathématiques dans les textes philosophiques de d’Alembert

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2003
The aim of this article is to analyse the philosophy of knowledge developed by d’Alembert by shedding light on its application to mathematical objects and methods.
Pierre Lamandé
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Introduction - Le corps de la mémoire

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What can intellectual discipline and education when faced to the inertia of « nature »? This question, debated since Antiquity, arises in particular regarding memory.
Aurélien Ruellet
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Introduction - Jacques Roger et l’histoire de la pensée scientifique

open access: yesCahiers François Viète
This issue of Cahiers François Viète follows on from a symposium entitled « Jacques Roger et l'histoire de la pensée scientifique » held on May 10 2022 at the annual Congres of the Société de philosophie du Québec (SPQ).
Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Angela Ferraro
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Sur l’intérêt de Roger pour Malebranche. De la littérature à l’histoire des sciences 

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We propose to explore the link between Jacques Roger’s literary training and his career as a historian of the life sciences. To achieve this goal, we will examine the pages he devoted to Nicolas Malebranche, notably in his article « L’expression ...
Angela Ferraro
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Préface

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2003
Jean Gayon
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