France

‘The Republic needs scholars!’ A rapid history of making science public in 20th-century France

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ID20043410
AutoresAnnie Bergeron (0000-0002-3141-7912, Établissement public Campus Condorcet, autor correspondente), Andrée Bergeron
Ano2020
Páginas297-316
Data de publicação2020-09-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoCommunicating Science (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/cs.2020.13
OpenAlexW3086058407
ISBN9781760463656
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

Reading Ouest-Eclair on the 31 May 1937, the readers of the Breton daily newspaper learned about a 'crowd of young folks gaping at the mysterious machines used by modern scholars and at the tremendous machine generating stunning lightnings and artificial thunderstorms' and about their presumed fear in front of such powerful forces that 'meekly obey to the order of a human being' comparatively so small. This lyrical description related to the Paris international exposition Arts et techniques dans la vie moderne [Arts and technics in modern life] and described the first visitors to the Palais de la dcouverte

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