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Mars contre Neptune : l’astronomie entre rêve et calcul

open access: yesCahiers 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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Pistes de recherche pour une étude sur les procureurs généraux syndics : entre histoire individuelle et histoire institutionnelle [PDF]

open access: yesAnnales historiques de la Révolution française, 2010
Lorsque les constituants établissent la nouvelle pyramide administrative française dans les premiers mois de la Révolution, ils confient la mise en application de la loi au procureur général syndic du département. Élu par les assemblées électorales départementales, le procureur général syndic est théoriquement la synthèse institutionnelle de deux ...
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Tension histoire/mémoire dans la valorisation du patrimoine scientifique et technique : une perspective critique

open access: yesCahiers 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

open access: yesCahiers 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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Luttes juridiques pour la tutelle des écoles d’hydrographie, à l’occasion de l’expulsion des Jésuites, en particulier dans les villes de La Rochelle, Nantes, Rouen et Bayonne (1760-1785)

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2016
The expulsion and dispersion of the Jesuits decided by the Parliaments of Paris and the Provinces between 1761 and 1763, caused a disorganisation of most of the chairs of mathematics and hydrography held mainly by the Jesuits since the end of the 17th ...
Pierre-Yves Larrieu
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De l’autre côté du miroir : le changement de cap d’un jeune homme ambitieux

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2015
After studying medicine in Montpellier, the young Louis Figuier set his sights on a scientific career in Paris. But he threw himself into a controversy with Claude Bernard, a prestigious academician of science.
Annaïg Cotonnec
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Médecin républicain contre savant royaliste : controverse scientifique ou conflit idéologique en province

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2015
Under the July Monarchy, in the flourishing war port of Rochefort, a violent controversy pitted two pillars of the École de Santé against each other, a generation apart.
Jean-Bernard Vaultier
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