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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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Jacques Dubois, Le Roman policier ou la Modernité [PDF]
Le Roman policier ou la ...
Bleton, Paul
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Image et mesure : deux cultures aux origines de l’astrophysique française
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
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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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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O acesso livre na França em 2012: Entre imobilismo e inovação [PDF]
Ten years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative, we have examined the current situation of Open Access in France via the two open access (OA) roads: the Green (self-archiving) and the Gold (OA publishing).
Bosc, Hélène, Dillaerts, Hans
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The Portuguese Astronomical Activity in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
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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Can the quality of institutions explain the economic ‘backwardness' of Middle-East and North Africa? Recent work tries to answer this question using the Douglas North neo-institutionnalist theory that explains the rise of the Western world by the ...
Talahite, Fatiha
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De l'anticartellisme à l'antiparlementarisme dans la France des années Vingt: "Appropriations, mutations et diffusion d'un discours critique contre le régime parlementaire par la droite de 1924 à 1926." [PDF]
15 pagesNational audienceThe electoral victory of the Cartel des gauches in 1924 marked a new period of governmental instability in France. For the first time since the end of WWI, the extreme right-wing developed an antiparliamentarian movement which ...
Dubois, Jean-Etienne
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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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