Search results for "HISTORY"

AsYouLikeHim: Images ofGalileoSince the17thCentury

2003

On the Background to Hilbert’s Paris Lecture “Mathematical Problems”

2018

Much has been written about the famous lecture on “Mathematical Problems” (Hilbert 1901) that David Hilbert delivered at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians, which took place in Paris during the summer of 1900 (Alexandrov 1979; Browder 1976). Not that the event itself evoked such great interest, nor have many writers paid particularly close attention to what Hilbert had to say on that occasion. What mattered – both for the text and the larger context – came afterward. Mathematicians remember ICM II and Hilbert’s role in it for just one reason: this was the occasion when he unveiled a famous list of 23 problems, a challenge to those who wished to make names for themselves in …

Physics meets Bohemia Einstein in Bohemia Michael D. Gordin Princeton University Press, 2020. 360 pp.

2020

In Einstein in Bohemia, Michael Gordin seeks to illuminate the elusive sig­nificance of Einstein9s brief tenure in Prague, both for the biography of the famous physi­cist and for the cultural history of Bohemia. An expert in the his­tory of modern physical sciences and of Russian, European, and American history, Gordin pulls together a wealth of infor­mation about the wider context of Einstein9s stay in Prague and of the cultural, scientific, and political history of Bohemia.

The Uses of Analogies in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Science

2011

The object of this paper is to look at the extent and nature of the uses of analogy during the first century following the so-called scientific revolution.Using the research tool provided by JSTOR we systematically analyze the uses of “analog” and its cognates (analogies, analogous, etc.) in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the period 1665–1780. In addition to giving the possibility of evaluating quantitatively the proportion of papers explicitly using analogies, this approach makes it possible to go beyond the maybe idiosyncratic cases of Descartes, Kepler, Galileo, and other much studied giants of the so-called Scientific Revolution. As a result a classifi…

Emmy Noether: a Portrait

2020

“I always went my own way in teaching and research,” Emmy Noether once wrote toward the end of her life.

Les syndicalismes en Europe. II, À l'épreuve de l'État

2002

Les syndicalismes en Europe. I : A l'épreuve de l'histoire

2002

Introduction

2002

Brunissage, polissage et degrés de séchage : un référentiel expérimental

2010

As a great many technical operations are involved in the creation of pottery, it is often difficult to discover precisely in what order they were used in the "chaînes opératoires". The determination of the state of drying is an essential step in rediscovering the archaeological chaîne opératoire. An experimental method is developed to identify burnishing and polishing techniques. The states of drying can be identified by the study of experimental trace types and surface aspects. Precise differenciation on archaeological sherds between burnishing and polishing techniques then becomes possible. The development of this method for other techniques will undoubtedly increase the quality and preci…

« L’Ecriture d’Art Brut : les innovations du mot et de l’image »

2009

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