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 (...

The five papers collected in this small volume were first presented to the Seminar on the Foundations of the Sciences at the University of Strasbourg in 1978, to mark the centenary of the death of Claude Bernard. The focus of the seminar was not, however, the work of Bernard but the development of medicine, and its relationship with science and technology, in the hundred years since 1878. Thus ...

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

W ATITH THE EXCEPTION of two translations and a few articles, the thirtysix volumes of the Histoire naturelle, geane'rale etparticuliere comprise Buffon's oeuvres completes.' They also stand as one of the great intellectual monuments of the French Enlightenment. Considering that they were written by one of the noted stylists of the century, were illustrated with hundreds of engravings, were sum...

c'est vrai qu'une histoire dynamique de la littérature française nous manquait depuis longtemps, et que récemment ce vide a été comblé par une contribution collective, tenant même sa place dans l'historiographie de la littérature française. mais, il faut dire que du côté de nos francisants, nous aussi, nous avons des considérations à faire, comme si on voulait mettre en parallèle le francisme e...

Abstract The two autobiographies, of V. Y. Mudimbe and Jan Vansina, published in 1994, have many resemblances (both men have worked mainly in Zaire and have spent much of their careers in the United States) and contrasts (one being a philosopher and the other an historian). Vansina has been concerned especially with African history over a long period as it can be constructed from research into ...

Damas médiévale et ottomane. Histoire urbaine, société et culture matérielle The End of an Era Pre-Reform Damascus in the 1820s La fin d'une époque : Damas au temps de la pré-réforme des années 1820 The text is a facsimile of the print edition.

Programme de l’année 2018-2019 : Carrières et parcours musiciens au XIXe siècle (histoire l’enseignement musical. Autobiographie musique). 2019-2020 2020-2021 Franz Liszt Hector Berlioz romantismes européens. Histoire la musique.

but it has also involved a narrowing of the perspective. Few subjects more certainly demand an international perspective than war. To mention only a couple of facts that support this remark, let me remind the reader that: (1) as the aggressive interpretation of Darwinism was often presented as a typical German craze, something more should have been said on Germany at least; (2) there were natio...