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Le cercle méridien de Repsold de Strasbourg : analyse d’implantation au sein du nouvel observatoire de l’université impériale

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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Le Comité « Assistance civique » à Moscou

Connexe, 2019
Cet article analyse l’aide humanitaire que des citoyens apportent à d’autres en Russie post-soviétique, en faisant une histoire et une ethnographie inédite de l’association « Assistance civique ».
Agnès Blais
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Sensational Differences: the Case of the Transit of Venus

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
In the nineteenth century, astronomers, physiologists and experimental psychologists noticed that different individuals timed simultaneous phenomena differently.
Jimena Canales
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De l’histoire des journaux mathématiques à l’histoire de la circulation mathématique

Cahiers François Viète, 2020
Formulated in 2014, this collective research project in the history of mathematics aimed to investigate the history of the circulation of mathematics through journals in large geographical areas and over a long period of time. Its place in the scientific
Jeanne Peiffer, Hélène Gispert, Philippe Nabonnand   +2 more
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From the Field to the Bookshop. Shaping Persepolis in the Early 18th century

Cahiers François Viète, 2021
Between the 17th and the 18th centuries three travelers — Jean Chardin, Engel-bert Kaempfer and Cornelis de Bruijn — tried to represent accurately the Iranian monuments of Persepolis and Naqsh-e Rostam.
Emanuele Giusti
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Les cartes géologiques du département de Loire-Inférieure

Cahiers François Viète, 2015
Detailed geological mapping began in France at the beginning of the 19th century with the departmental maps, the work of local scholars and mining engineers. The Loire-Inférieure was mapped successively by the first curator of the Nantes Museum, François-
Pascal Rétif
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Élaborer le cercle méridien Ertel & Sohn de l’Observatoire de Neuchâtel (1858-1861) : besoins scientifiques, possibilités techniques et contraintes financières

Cahiers François Viète, 2023
When founding a new observatory, the choice of instrumentation is of great importance for its recognition in the international network of astronomical institutions.
Julien Gressot, Romain Jeanneret
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Making Sense of Chemistry: Synthetic Rubber in German Popular Scientific Literature (1929-2009)

Cahiers François Viète, 2017
The chapter analyzes the popular literature on synthetic rubber between 1929 and 2009 and asks how popular science books explained and interpreted rubber research and development to a general (German) public. How does popular literature produce different
Jens Soentgen
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« Un vaste local pour y étaler ses richesses » : inaugurer la Galerie de zoologie à Lyon en 1837

Cahiers François Viète, 2021
In 1837, a brand-new Gallery of Zoology was opened within the Museum of Natural History of Lyon. The inaugural speech of the foundation of this place of knowledge was given by the deputy-mayor Chinard.
Déborah Dubald
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Quality Matters for Historical Plastics: The Past-Making of Cellulose Nitrates for Future Preservation

Cahiers François Viète, 2017
The material degradation of an historical artifact through chemical breakdown may place the object at the end of its useful heritage “life” in terms of aesthetic value and appearance.
Anita Quye
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