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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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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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Les rivalités des puissances en Afrique de l’Ouest : ambitions des acteurs [PDF]
Au sortir du système colonial, la paix et la stabilité constituaient deux des principaux enjeux auxquels les pays africains devraient faire face en raison de leur histoire politique et institutionnelle.
Pitchou NFUNE MUZALIWA +4 more
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Réactions québécoises à l’État-providence en émergence : perspectives historiques [PDF]
Dans une perspective historique, l'auteur montre comment la notion d'État-providence a pris racine au Québec entre le début des années 1930 et le milieu des années 1960.
Southam, Peter
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Georges Moreau was a professor of physics at the Faculty of Science of Rennes from 1895 to 1935. He was also a physicist, a convinced atomist, studying the ions produced by flames and saline vapours; but above all he was an administrator, the dean of his
Axel Petit
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L’astronomie à la niche. Sur la patrimonialisation de l’observatoire de Paris, 1900-1930
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
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
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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This article aims to historicize the particular mechanisms that opened up access to women to a career in the archaeological sciences. To do so, we propose to study the case of Mary Wyckoff (1906-1932), appointed in 1929 by the American School of ...
Nina Clercq (de)
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Pour une paléontologie de l’histoire. L’ethnologie anglaise à l’âge romantique
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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