Histoire des spectacles à l’époque contemporaine

Pour une histoire des sciences à part entière

Jacques Roger (1920-1990) was one of the leading French historians of science of the twentieth century, noted for the definitive studies of his countryman Buffon. As professor at the Sorbonne and Director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the Centre Internationale de Synthese, and the Centre Alexandre Koyre, Roger was unquestionably a force to be reckoned with amongst French ...

Histoire Des Mathématiques

T he theory of rings has deep historical roots in several of the mainstream, classical disciplines of nineteenth-century mathematics, such as the theory of algebraic number fields, the theory of algebraic functions, the theory of polynomial forms, the theory of quaternions and hypercomplex numbers, and others. The unification of all these trends reached its peak with the works of Emmy Noether (...

L'Institut Pasteur: contributions à son histoire

razzmatazz quackery hardly developed before the rapid expansion of commerce, advertising, communications and the press after the 1740s. Benes also shows that, at least up to the War of Independence, many of the showbiz-style quacks were paying brief visits to Europe, including the pioneer electro-therapist and sex-therapist, James Graham. In one final way, this volume documents the different co...

Les maladies des animaux dues à des Clostridium welchii

Le droit du numérique : une histoire à préserver

Although the history of informatics is recent, this field poses unusual problems with respect to its preservation. These problems are amplified by legal issues, digital law being in itself a subject matter whose history is also worth presenting in a computer science museum. The purpose of this paper is to present a quick overview of the evolution of law regarding digital matters, from an histor...