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Cahiers François Viète, 2023 Newly created by the German Empire in the recently annexed Alsatian capital, the Strasbourg astronomical observatory was equipped in 1880 with a Repsold meridian circle. Two characteristics define its installation.
Delphine Issenmann
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Cahiers François Viète, 2016 The case studies gathered in this volume are the result of a workshop organised by the Groupe d'histoire de l'astronomie of the Centre François Viète of epistemology, history of science and technology (Université de Nantes), in Nantes, in November 2010 ...
Guy Boistel, Olivier Sauzereau
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L’astronomie à la niche. Sur la patrimonialisation de l’observatoire de Paris, 1900-1930
Cahiers François Viète, 2011 The patrimonialization of scientific institutions is a recent phenomenon. This article shows how in the 1920s the Paris Observatory became, volens nolens, a national monument in its own right.
Arnaud Saint-Martin
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Paul Le Rolland (1887-1957) : de la mécanique physique à la physique des matériaux
Cahiers François Viète, 2011 The career of the physicist Paul Le Rolland can be read as a confluence, that precise place where different currents meet, before they become inseparable from each other.
Virginie Fonteneau
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Astronomy and Diplomacy at the Court of King João V of Portugal
Cahiers François Viète, 2017 During the reign of King João V of Portugal (r.1707-1750), astronomy took part in a movement of cultural renewal and gave impulse to notable international exchanges, which were promoted by the absolutist monarch himself.
Luís Tirapicos
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Entre expériences des enfants et écrits institutionnels : des histoires de placement [PDF]
Revue d’histoire de l’enfance « irrégulière », 2009 Joris, Anna, Stéphane, Astrid… sont confiés dans le cadre d’un placement à l’Aide sociale à l’enfance. Ils partagent tous cette expérience d’« enfants placés » mais ils entretiennent chacun un rapport singulier à l’histoire de leur placement. L'auteure cherche au travers des parcours de placement à observer les écarts, les marges entre la manière dont ...
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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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Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
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Les signaux horaires français : la quête d’un système uniformisé
Cahiers François Viète, 2016 In the middle of the 19th century, six chronometric observatories of the French Navy provided a time service for the control of marine watches. A ministerial decree of 1858 required French ports to transmit a time signal at a fixed time to ships in ...
Olivier Sauzereau
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Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between university prestige, disciplinary cultures, and the (re)production of funding inequalities in the humanities and social sciences. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods by analyzing: (1) data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social ...
Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie
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