Janis Langins
Biographic Data
| ID | 993102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janis Langins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janis |
| FAMILY NAME | Langins |
| SIGNATURE | LANGINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist, by Roger Hahn
"Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist, by Roger Hahn." Canadian Journal of History, 41(1), pp. 120–121
Vauban: De la gloire du roi au service de l'etat (review)
Reviewed by: Vauban: De la gloire du roi au service de l’état Janis Langins (bio) Vauban: De la gloire du roi au service de l’état. By Michèle Virol. Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon, 2003. Pp. 433. €28. Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de Vauban (1633-1707), was seen by royalists as the model of the faithful servant and invincible soldier of a great monarch. Revolutionaries agreed with Fontenelle that "He was a Roman whom it seemed our century had sto…
Diverging parallel lives in science: Unpublished correspondence from Georges-Frédéric Parrot to Georges Cuvier
Schools and Work: Technical and Vocational Education in France Since the Third Republic , by Charles R. Day
Production d'armes et puissance des nations (review)
In 1987-88 the money spent in defense budgets on this planet exceeded one trillion dollars. Since the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the end of the cold war, this figure has begun to shrink, but it remains high and has revived a debate on the usefulness of military spending for national economies and technological development. The two classical poles of the debate are represented by Werner Sombart, with his view of the positive impetus of war …
Poitras, Claire. La cité au bout du fil: Le téléphone à Montréal de 1879 à 1930. Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2000
POITRAS, Claire. La cité au bout du fil : Le téléphone à Montréal de 1879 à 1930. Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2000.. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Les artisans canadiens au XVIII e siècle) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
L’Ecole d’application de l’artillerie et du génie de Metz, 1802–1870: Enseignement et recherches. Actes de la journée, d’étude du 2 novembre 1995 ed. by Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon
148 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE tool as they once were. Even so, not only undergraduates but more advanced scholars will find this work useful as long as it is not the sole resource at their disposal. Terrence R. Fehner and F. G. Gosling Drs. Fehner and Gosling are historians at the U.S. Department of Energy. They are currently working on a history ofwaste management policies and programs from 1942 to the present. L’Ecole d’application de…
L'Ecole d'application de l'artillerie et du genie de Metz, 1802-1870: Enseignement et recherches. Actes de la journee, d'etude du 2 novembre 1995
L'Invention de l'ingenieur moderne: L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees, 1747-1851
De 1747, date de sa creation, a 1851 ou une importante reforme vient marquer le terme d'une longue evolution, l'ecole des ponts et chaussees forme les ingenieurs responsables de la construction et de l'entretien des voies de circulation, routes, ponts, canaux puis chemins de fer. L'ecole permet d'etudier l'evolution de la figure professionnelle de l'ingenieur a la charniere de l'age classique et de l'ere industrielle. Cette evolution est etudiee …
L'Invention de l'ingénieur moderne: L'École des Ponts et Chaussées, 1747-1851 by Antoine Picon
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 181 perpetuates a tradition of civil engineering histories written by engi neers or closely based on their accounts. While the engineer’s viewpoint can provide insight into design and construction, the mindset and concerns of engineers often vary from those of historians as well as most of the general public. For those who seek to go beyond the bounds of the historiographic tradition that Marrey chose, Les pon…
Public and Private Art Education in France, 1648-1793
Histoire de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1873-1990: La Montée des Ingénieurs Francophones
Sciences et techniques en perspective. Vol. 15: La mutation de l’enseignement scientifique en France (1750–1810) et le rôle des écoles centrales: L’Exemple de Nantes by Pierre Lamandé
176 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE scholars and promoting the study of technology as a valid academic enterprise. Hence, the term science humaine refers both to the fact that technology is the product of human knowledge and organized activity and that the study of technology should be an integral part of the university curriculum. While in France this position has political overtones, the argument is of some importance for historians of tech…
Sciences et techniques en perspective. Vol. 15: La mutation de l'enseignement scientifique en France (1750-1810) et le role des ecoles centrales: L'Exemple de Nantes
Architectes et Ingénieurs au Siècle des Lumières by Antoine Picon (review)
870 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE structure clearly out of bounds. By his labor of love, Howse has produced a valuable contribution to the history of astronomy and has closed an outstanding gap in the history of navigation. Owen Gingerich Prof. Gingerich of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has wide-ranging interests in the history ofastronomy. In 1989, he published Album ofScience: PhysicalSciences in the Twentieth Century. H…
Architectes et Ingenieurs au Siecle des Lumieres
La Republique avait besoin de savants
Education for the Industrial World: The Écoles d'Arts et Métiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering by Charles R. Day
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 159 scientist on the other, as well as the incorporation of the engineer into industrial and governmental entities which subordinate technical ex pertise to their own agendas, are pretty much the same. If correct, what dynamic is effecting this convergence and how does it bear on the autonomy of technology vis-à-vis its local institutionalization? Steven L. Goldman Dr. Goldman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in …
Education for the Industrial World: The Ecoles d'Arts et Metiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering
Siege Warfare. Vol. 2: The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789
A History of French Military Aviation
The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784; With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads
Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel . Terry S. Reynolds
Calendar of the Correspondence of Pierre Simon Laplace . Roger Hahn
Une lettre inédite de Fourier sur l'enseignement destiné aux ingénieurs en 1797
Edition and commentary on an important unpublished letter of Joseph Fourier (18 May 1797) concerning teaching of mathematics at the Ecole polytechnique and a project for coordinating this with teaching at the Ecole du Génie de Metz. Some background on the history of the Ecole Polytechnique and the biography of Fourier around this period are also included in the article
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Une lettre inédite de Fourier sur l'enseignement destiné aux ingénieurs en 1797
Edition and commentary on an important unpublished letter of Joseph Fourier (18 May 1797) concerning teaching of mathematics at the Ecole polytechnique and a project for coordinating this with teaching at the Ecole du Génie de Metz. Some background on the history of the Ecole Polytechnique and the biography of Fourier around this period are also included in the article
Calendar of the Correspondence of Pierre Simon Laplace . Roger Hahn
Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel . Terry S. Reynolds
The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784; With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads
Siege Warfare. Vol. 2: The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789
A History of French Military Aviation
La Republique avait besoin de savants
Education for the Industrial World: The Écoles d'Arts et Métiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering by Charles R. Day
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 159 scientist on the other, as well as the incorporation of the engineer into industrial and governmental entities which subordinate technical ex pertise to their own agendas, are pretty much the same. If correct, what dynamic is effecting this convergence and how does it bear on the autonomy of technology vis-à-vis its local institutionalization? Steven L. Goldman Dr. Goldman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in …
Education for the Industrial World: The Ecoles d'Arts et Metiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering
Architectes et Ingénieurs au Siècle des Lumières by Antoine Picon (review)
870 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE structure clearly out of bounds. By his labor of love, Howse has produced a valuable contribution to the history of astronomy and has closed an outstanding gap in the history of navigation. Owen Gingerich Prof. Gingerich of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has wide-ranging interests in the history ofastronomy. In 1989, he published Album ofScience: PhysicalSciences in the Twentieth Century. H…
Architectes et Ingenieurs au Siecle des Lumieres
Sciences et techniques en perspective. Vol. 15: La mutation de l’enseignement scientifique en France (1750–1810) et le rôle des écoles centrales: L’Exemple de Nantes by Pierre Lamandé
176 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE scholars and promoting the study of technology as a valid academic enterprise. Hence, the term science humaine refers both to the fact that technology is the product of human knowledge and organized activity and that the study of technology should be an integral part of the university curriculum. While in France this position has political overtones, the argument is of some importance for historians of tech…
Sciences et techniques en perspective. Vol. 15: La mutation de l'enseignement scientifique en France (1750-1810) et le role des ecoles centrales: L'Exemple de Nantes
Histoire de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1873-1990: La Montée des Ingénieurs Francophones
Public and Private Art Education in France, 1648-1793
L'Invention de l'ingenieur moderne: L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees, 1747-1851
De 1747, date de sa creation, a 1851 ou une importante reforme vient marquer le terme d'une longue evolution, l'ecole des ponts et chaussees forme les ingenieurs responsables de la construction et de l'entretien des voies de circulation, routes, ponts, canaux puis chemins de fer. L'ecole permet d'etudier l'evolution de la figure professionnelle de l'ingenieur a la charniere de l'age classique et de l'ere industrielle. Cette evolution est etudiee …
L'Invention de l'ingénieur moderne: L'École des Ponts et Chaussées, 1747-1851 by Antoine Picon
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 181 perpetuates a tradition of civil engineering histories written by engi neers or closely based on their accounts. While the engineer’s viewpoint can provide insight into design and construction, the mindset and concerns of engineers often vary from those of historians as well as most of the general public. For those who seek to go beyond the bounds of the historiographic tradition that Marrey chose, Les pon…
L’Ecole d’application de l’artillerie et du génie de Metz, 1802–1870: Enseignement et recherches. Actes de la journée, d’étude du 2 novembre 1995 ed. by Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon
148 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE tool as they once were. Even so, not only undergraduates but more advanced scholars will find this work useful as long as it is not the sole resource at their disposal. Terrence R. Fehner and F. G. Gosling Drs. Fehner and Gosling are historians at the U.S. Department of Energy. They are currently working on a history ofwaste management policies and programs from 1942 to the present. L’Ecole d’application de…
L'Ecole d'application de l'artillerie et du genie de Metz, 1802-1870: Enseignement et recherches. Actes de la journee, d'etude du 2 novembre 1995
Poitras, Claire. La cité au bout du fil: Le téléphone à Montréal de 1879 à 1930. Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2000
POITRAS, Claire. La cité au bout du fil : Le téléphone à Montréal de 1879 à 1930. Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2000.. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Les artisans canadiens au XVIII e siècle) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Production d'armes et puissance des nations (review)
In 1987-88 the money spent in defense budgets on this planet exceeded one trillion dollars. Since the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the end of the cold war, this figure has begun to shrink, but it remains high and has revived a debate on the usefulness of military spending for national economies and technological development. The two classical poles of the debate are represented by Werner Sombart, with his view of the positive impetus of war …
Schools and Work: Technical and Vocational Education in France Since the Third Republic , by Charles R. Day
Vauban: De la gloire du roi au service de l'etat (review)
Reviewed by: Vauban: De la gloire du roi au service de l’état Janis Langins (bio) Vauban: De la gloire du roi au service de l’état. By Michèle Virol. Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon, 2003. Pp. 433. €28. Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de Vauban (1633-1707), was seen by royalists as the model of the faithful servant and invincible soldier of a great monarch. Revolutionaries agreed with Fontenelle that "He was a Roman whom it seemed our century had sto…
Diverging parallel lives in science: Unpublished correspondence from Georges-Frédéric Parrot to Georges Cuvier
Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist, by Roger Hahn
"Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist, by Roger Hahn." Canadian Journal of History, 41(1), pp. 120–121
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