Christine Blondel
Biographic Data
| ID | 616929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Blondel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Blondel |
| SIGNATURE | BLONDEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
"This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth century: entert…
Des savants face a l'occulte 1870-1940
Des savants face a l'occulte, 1870-1940
Tables tournantes et parlantes, somnambules et mediums, fantomes et ectoplasmes ont captive l’attention d’une fraction non negligeable de la communaute scientifique francaise au tournant du XXe siecle. Ces phenomenes bizarres pouvaient-ils s’expliquer par la physique, par la biologie, ou bien relevaient-ils de la psychopathologie ? Nombreux furent les savants qui tenterent de les soumettre a la methode experimentale : Pierre et Marie Curie partic…
Des savants faces à l'occulte, 1870-1940
Des savants face à l’occulte
Des savants face à l’occulte
Haüy et l'électricité
Haüy 's role as the « great legislator of mineralogy » — to use Cuvier 's expression — has led to forget his involvement in the field of electricity. It is true that the phenomenon of electricity by pressure that he discovered lost its relevance for physicists of the end of the century. I shall study the change in Haüy's attitude regarding electricity, in order to bring out the strength, as well as the ambiguity, of the general evolution which to…
Electrical instruments in 19th century France, between makers and users
Having quickly described new historiographical approaches to scientific instruments, this paper explores some characteristics of the evolution of the relationship between scientific instrument makers and French physicists in the 19th century. Artisans without a scientific culture at the dawn of the century, a certain number of instrument makers were integrated into the scientific community by its end, sharing their practices and their values. The…
Branly face à l'innovation technique
Scientist or inventer? During his lifetime Branly was already alternatively called one or the other. Here I try to clarify the relationship between the physics professor and technical innovation. A glance at his works reveals that they evolved from experimental physics to applied research. His network of relations indicates privileged contacts with physicists concerned with technical applications and with medical doctors. Finally as a medical doc…
Vision physique « éthérienne », mathématisation « laplacienne »
Although for over a century Ampere has been considered to have created a Newtonian electrodynamics, that is, based on action at a distance, some recent works portray him as a convinced partisan of the ether and as an opponent of Laplacian physics. This divergence of viewpoints is clarified here by examining Ampere's attempts within the context of gradual propagation and by highlighting the points where his thinking coincides with the Laplacians. …
From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves
Ampere and the Programming of Research
Sur les premières recherches de formule électrodynamique par Ampère (octobre 1820)
Dès ses premières recherches électrodynamiques, au cours du mois d'octobre 1820, Ampère recherche l'expression de la force s'exerçant entre deux éléments de courant. Ces premières tentatives, quelques semaines seulement après l'annonce de la découverte d'Œrsted à l'Académie des Sciences par Arago, sont révélées par un manuscrit inédit d'Ampère (appendice III). La rédaction de ce manuscrit peut être située dans la succession de ses découvertes exp…
Des savants face a l'occulte, 1870-1940
Tables tournantes et parlantes, somnambules et mediums, fantomes et ectoplasmes ont captive l’attention d’une fraction non negligeable de la communaute scientifique francaise au tournant du XXe siecle. Ces phenomenes bizarres pouvaient-ils s’expliquer par la physique, par la biologie, ou bien relevaient-ils de la psychopathologie ? Nombreux furent les savants qui tenterent de les soumettre a la methode experimentale : Pierre et Marie Curie partic…
Ampere and the Programming of Research
Sur les premières recherches de formule électrodynamique par Ampère (octobre 1820)
Dès ses premières recherches électrodynamiques, au cours du mois d'octobre 1820, Ampère recherche l'expression de la force s'exerçant entre deux éléments de courant. Ces premières tentatives, quelques semaines seulement après l'annonce de la découverte d'Œrsted à l'Académie des Sciences par Arago, sont révélées par un manuscrit inédit d'Ampère (appendice III). La rédaction de ce manuscrit peut être située dans la succession de ses découvertes exp…
Ampere and the Programming of Research
From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves
Vision physique « éthérienne », mathématisation « laplacienne »
Although for over a century Ampere has been considered to have created a Newtonian electrodynamics, that is, based on action at a distance, some recent works portray him as a convinced partisan of the ether and as an opponent of Laplacian physics. This divergence of viewpoints is clarified here by examining Ampere's attempts within the context of gradual propagation and by highlighting the points where his thinking coincides with the Laplacians. …
Branly face à l'innovation technique
Scientist or inventer? During his lifetime Branly was already alternatively called one or the other. Here I try to clarify the relationship between the physics professor and technical innovation. A glance at his works reveals that they evolved from experimental physics to applied research. His network of relations indicates privileged contacts with physicists concerned with technical applications and with medical doctors. Finally as a medical doc…
Haüy et l'électricité
Haüy 's role as the « great legislator of mineralogy » — to use Cuvier 's expression — has led to forget his involvement in the field of electricity. It is true that the phenomenon of electricity by pressure that he discovered lost its relevance for physicists of the end of the century. I shall study the change in Haüy's attitude regarding electricity, in order to bring out the strength, as well as the ambiguity, of the general evolution which to…
Electrical instruments in 19th century France, between makers and users
Having quickly described new historiographical approaches to scientific instruments, this paper explores some characteristics of the evolution of the relationship between scientific instrument makers and French physicists in the 19th century. Artisans without a scientific culture at the dawn of the century, a certain number of instrument makers were integrated into the scientific community by its end, sharing their practices and their values. The…
Des savants faces à l'occulte, 1870-1940
Des savants face à l’occulte
Des savants face à l’occulte
Des savants face a l'occulte, 1870-1940
Tables tournantes et parlantes, somnambules et mediums, fantomes et ectoplasmes ont captive l’attention d’une fraction non negligeable de la communaute scientifique francaise au tournant du XXe siecle. Ces phenomenes bizarres pouvaient-ils s’expliquer par la physique, par la biologie, ou bien relevaient-ils de la psychopathologie ? Nombreux furent les savants qui tenterent de les soumettre a la methode experimentale : Pierre et Marie Curie partic…
Des savants face a l'occulte 1870-1940
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
"This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth century: entert…
Philosophy (9 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (5 works) · Physics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)