Taking the early 19th century concept of mechanical work in theoretical physics (popular among such engineers as Coriolis and Navier) as the point of reference, this essay draws a connection between this concept and similar reasoning occurring at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris at the turn of the 18th century, especially evident in the works of Amontons and Parent. The essay then demonstrates how and why this concept begins to develop in this academic environment, and how it is then adopted, enhanced and modified by Pitot Bélidor, Désaguliers, and D. Bernoulli while seemingly ignored by theorists such as D’Alembert. The role of the breakdown of the conceptualisation of machines as static agents seems decisive. What follows is a stron...
The history of science and mechanics is confronted by two interconnected problems: a critical accumu...
The English mathematician Charles Babbage, who during the first half of the last century invented th...
International audienceThis article deals with the works on mechanics published in France from 1820-1...
Taking the early 19th century concept of mechanical work in theoretical physics (popular among such ...
En prenant comme point d’horizon l’entrée du concept de travail mécanique dans la physique théorique...
This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its fur...
International audienceThe concept of mechanical work is inherited from the concepts of potentia abso...
International audienceA première vue, le concept travail mécanique semble n'apparaître dans la théor...
Cet article tente une synthèse de deux siècles d'une histoire croisée de la théorie physique et de l...
In the 1930s the Swiss brothers Édouard and Georges Guillaume launched an ambitious attempt to found...
En français. Accepté par Physis, corrigé, et actuellement en attente de publication.The concept of m...
A la fin du 19ème siècle, le réseau électrique prend forme et l’électricité comme source d’énergie c...
Cet article se penche sur les débats sur les avantages et les inconvénients de la division du travai...
Addressing the question of whether machines make history, this paper links the distinction between t...
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The history of science and mechanics is confronted by two interconnected problems: a critical accumu...
The English mathematician Charles Babbage, who during the first half of the last century invented th...
International audienceThis article deals with the works on mechanics published in France from 1820-1...
Taking the early 19th century concept of mechanical work in theoretical physics (popular among such ...
En prenant comme point d’horizon l’entrée du concept de travail mécanique dans la physique théorique...
This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its fur...
International audienceThe concept of mechanical work is inherited from the concepts of potentia abso...
International audienceA première vue, le concept travail mécanique semble n'apparaître dans la théor...
Cet article tente une synthèse de deux siècles d'une histoire croisée de la théorie physique et de l...
In the 1930s the Swiss brothers Édouard and Georges Guillaume launched an ambitious attempt to found...
En français. Accepté par Physis, corrigé, et actuellement en attente de publication.The concept of m...
A la fin du 19ème siècle, le réseau électrique prend forme et l’électricité comme source d’énergie c...
Cet article se penche sur les débats sur les avantages et les inconvénients de la division du travai...
Addressing the question of whether machines make history, this paper links the distinction between t...
Support papierInternational audienceThis article gives characteristics of Philippe de La Hire's mech...
The history of science and mechanics is confronted by two interconnected problems: a critical accumu...
The English mathematician Charles Babbage, who during the first half of the last century invented th...
International audienceThis article deals with the works on mechanics published in France from 1820-1...