Celebration of 200 years since Sadi Carnot's Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du Feu, 1824–2024 & les Carnots
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Configurations et discussions scientifiques au Centre de recherches sur la formation (2011-2018) du Conservatoire national des arts et métiers.
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Abstract Focused at the intersection of the history of books, sciences, and the circulation of knowledge between China and Europe, this article aims to shed light on the genesis of the Flora Sinensis (1656) written by Father Michał Piotr Boym (1612–1659), and the processes of the circulation of Chinese images and knowledge. Through the study of sev...
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A scientific paper that had been awaited for nearly two years was finally published in late summer 1924 in the first fascicule of the Proceedings of the 13th International Geological Congress held in August 1922 in Brussels (Belgium). Earlier in the year placed under pressure by Armand Renier, the Secretary General of the Congress, and cornered by ...
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This article details how we developed a dialogue with the inhabitants of a small rural town in decline using a surveymethodology that combined paper and digital mapping. By choosing a participatory approach, we entered into an openended dialogue with a random and finally fairly diverse group of respondents. Using maps and a particularly vague quest...
The lack of investment in non-infectious diseases by international health organizations after World War II is an understudied topic. By examining the global trajectory of hereditary and congenital disorders within and beyond the WHO, we provide insight into the reasons for this failure to invest in NCD management. In the 1970s, a network of genetic...