International audienceThis paper discusses the attitudes toward theory (mathematical knowledge, rational mechanics) that prevailed around 1800 at Ponts et Chaussées, the corps of state engineers in charge of public works in France. Contrary to existing scholarship, it argues that Ponts et Chaussées was not the epicenter of scientific engineering in early-nineteenth-century France and proposes to reassess the role and meaning of theoretical tools in Ponts et Chaussées project-making. It focuses on one of the few projects in which theory played a significant role: the controversy surrounding the Ourcq canal. It considers the epistemological and social questions raised by the (mostly negative) reception of theories in that case. It concludes b...
Military culture has occupied a central place in the constitution of constructive knowledge amongst ...
International audienceDuring the second half of the 20th century, at the time of the foundation of t...
International audienceDrawing on evidence from the world of French state engineers in the first half...
International audienceThis paper discusses the attitudes toward theory (mathematical knowledge, rati...
International audienceThis paper investigates the decision-making procedures in a technical assembly...
National audienceA tension between strong individualization and a holistic conception of activities ...
National audienceThe aim of this paper is to study the practice of levelling by the Ponts et Chaussé...
International audienceMilitary culture has occupied a central place in the constitution of construct...
International audienceThis article deals with the world of French State engineers in the first half ...
National audienceScholars usually explain the spectacular increase in the number of water supply pro...
Mineral waters were a delicate and unstable product whose value as a remedy increased in early moder...
This dissertation studies the civil engineers of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussees as a social and pr...
SUMMARY. — In 1823-1825 Marc Seguin built the first great suspension bridge across the Rhone River b...
Military culture has occupied a central place in the constitution of constructive knowledge amongst ...
International audienceDuring the second half of the 20th century, at the time of the foundation of t...
International audienceDrawing on evidence from the world of French state engineers in the first half...
International audienceThis paper discusses the attitudes toward theory (mathematical knowledge, rati...
International audienceThis paper investigates the decision-making procedures in a technical assembly...
National audienceA tension between strong individualization and a holistic conception of activities ...
National audienceThe aim of this paper is to study the practice of levelling by the Ponts et Chaussé...
International audienceMilitary culture has occupied a central place in the constitution of construct...
International audienceThis article deals with the world of French State engineers in the first half ...
National audienceScholars usually explain the spectacular increase in the number of water supply pro...
Mineral waters were a delicate and unstable product whose value as a remedy increased in early moder...
This dissertation studies the civil engineers of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussees as a social and pr...
SUMMARY. — In 1823-1825 Marc Seguin built the first great suspension bridge across the Rhone River b...
Military culture has occupied a central place in the constitution of constructive knowledge amongst ...
International audienceDuring the second half of the 20th century, at the time of the foundation of t...
International audienceDrawing on evidence from the world of French state engineers in the first half...