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Astronomie de terrain entre Académie des sciences et Armée

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
At the end of the 19th century, transits of Venus in front of the Sun provided opportunities to set up several scientific expeditions around the world.
Martina Schiavon
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Développement de l'espèce et conservation des races. Abel Gruvel (1870-1941) et la protection de la nature dans les colonies françaises

Cahiers François Viète, 2013
Abel Gruvel started his career in the world of marine biology stations at the end of the 19th century and zoology applied to agriculture. He then participated in the foundation of Port Etienne and became the fisheries development officer of the Ministry ...
Josquin Debaz
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Histoire institutionnelle du dispositif d’aide sénégalais

Calenda, 2014
Tout chercheur qui travaille sur les politiques publiques en Afrique est amené à interroger l’omniprésence du dispositif d’aide ; or celle-ci est mal documentée. Le problème d’archivage local lié à un déficit d’organisation, le « turn-over » ou la disparition des mémoires vivantes, mais aussi la rétention d’informations monnayables sur le marché de l ...
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Joseph Liouville et le Bureau des longitudes : mettre le pied à l’étrier à de jeunes savants et contrôler les dérives hégémoniques

Cahiers François Viète, 2018
While his mathematical work has been the subject of numerous studies, the role played by Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) in French astronomy remains unknown.
Colette Le Lay
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Les éphémérides nautiques et astronomiques de l’observatoire naval de Lisbonne et de l’observatoire astronomique de l’université de Coimbra, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle

Cahiers François Viète, 2016
The establishment of scientific education at the University of Coimbra was one of the most important features of the Pombal reform of the university (1772).
Fernando B. Figueiredo
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Du service de l’heure à l’océanographie : unité et diversité des observatoires navals en Europe (et ailleurs) au XIXe siècle. Première étude d’ensemble

Cahiers François Viète, 2016
This study, the first of its kind, aims to draw up a first overview of the installation and evolution of naval observatories dedicated to the time service and the astronomical training of sailors.
Guy Boistel
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Image et mesure : deux cultures aux origines de l’astrophysique française

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
In the commission preparing the 1874 transit of Venus, debates about the choice of photographic techniques are illustrative of the stakes that would come to characterize the beginning of astronomy in France over the following decades.
Stéphane Le Gars
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Mars contre Neptune : l’astronomie entre rêve et calcul

Cahiers François Viète, 2015
The self-taught Camille Flammarion, fascinated from childhood by the contemplation of the starry sky, entered astronomy through the back door of the calculation office of the Paris Observatory, then directed by the authoritarian Urbain Le Verrier ...
Colette Le Lay
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Tension histoire/mémoire dans la valorisation du patrimoine scientifique et technique : une perspective critique

Cahiers François Viète, 2011
This article examines the position of historians of science involved in the heritage process. Historical and memorial operations are substantially antinomic: the former aims at understanding the past, the latter at unifying a community.
Jérôme Lamy
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The Portuguese Astronomical Activity in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Cahiers François Viète, 2017
In the late 18th century and beginning of the 19th century, the Portuguese centre of gravity for astronomical research (and teaching) was the Royal Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra.
Fernando B. Figueiredo
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