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MAN AND NATURE/L'HOMME ET LA NATURE
I am very pleased to tell you that Valérie Chansigaud has published another book with Delachaux et Niestlé, entitled "L'homme et la nature, une histoire mouvementée". It is an analysis of the impact of...
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ATHANASIUS KIRCHER
I have come across wonderful images from Kircher's many books on the Internet. Athanasius Kircher was a seventeenth-century Jesuit, whose interests ranged widely from ancient languages to optics, to...
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A new page entitled « Bibliography » has been created. You can visit this page by clicking on the link below or on the page title in the column on the right side of the blog. You will find there the...
View ArticleEXHIBITIONS / EXPOSITIONS
A new page entitled « Exhibitions» has been added. It contains information about scientific illustration exhibitions and events. You can visit this page by clicking on the link below or on the page...
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CALL FOR PAPERS/APPEL A COMMUNICATION CLERMONT-FERRAND
A conference entitled Learned Societies and Academies, Travel and Travellers, Exploration and Explorers 1600-1900 is planned for November 15/16 in Clermont-Ferrand. Proposals must be sent before June...
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MAY 24 POSTER/AFFICHE POUR LE 24 MAI
Here is the poster for our next seminar, a combination of Otto Neurath's isotypes and a view of outer space - since our topic will be "Universal images?" With our two speakers, Basak Aray and Phil...
View ArticleNEW PUBLICATION/NOUVELLE PUBLICATION
I would like to announce the publication of L'image dans le texte scientifique (l'Harmattan), a collection of essays in French, edited by David Banks. It includes Richard Somerset's work on Arabella...
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UNIVERSAL IMAGES?/IMAGES UNIVERSELLES?
Yesterday's seminar was particularly interesting. Phil McGregor, who teaches journalism at the university of Bournemouth took as the starting-point of his talk the idea that images are a BRIDGE between...
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IBRIDE BUFFON
A strange exhibition in Montbard: fashion designers have been invited to present their bizarre animal furniture alongside the Musée Buffon's permanent exhibits in celebration of Buffon and his natural...
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NEXT SEMINAR JUNE 7/PROCHAIN SEMINAIRE LE 7 JUIN
The topic for our next seminar is about popularisation of science through images, especially in the publishing business in the nineteenth century. Our first guest, Norbert Verdier, teaches mathematics...
View ArticleNINETEENTH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATORS AND PUBLISHERS/ILLUSTRATEURS ET EDITEURS AU...
The two talks we heard yesterday had many common points. First of all, Daniel Raichvarg, whose subject was scientific books for children, as well as Norbert Verdier, who focused on mathematical...
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ART AND GEOLOGY/L'ART ET LA GEOLOGIE
Since April 27, until November 18, an interesting exhibition is on display in Arbois' Musée de la Vigne et du Vin. The artist Bénédicte Bresson, and her husband, geologist Louis-Marie Bresson, have...
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LOOKING BACK/BILAN
After two years which have been very intense, we are going to have a break in the series, to concentrate on the publication of most of the papers we have listened to. So, I thought I would have a quick...
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A TRIP TO NICEPHORE NIEPCE'S HOUSE/VISITE DE LA MAISON DE NICEPHORE NIEPCE
South of Chalon sur Saône lies the small village of Saint Loup de Varennes, which has the privilege of having been the first place in the world to be photographed. Here are the huge monument dedicated...
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THE RELATIVITY OF MAPS/RELATIVITE DES CARTES
I listened to an interesting programme last night, first broadcast on France-Culture last November. It addressed the relativity of maps, and how cartography shapes the way we see the world and our...
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KARL BLOSSFELDT
Valérie Chansigaud mentions Karl Blossfeldt's work and reproduces two of his photographs in Histoire de l'illustration naturaliste, but I had never seen any of his works "live" before the trip I took...
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A NEW EXHIBITION IN BAUME/NOUVELLE EXPOSITION A BAUME
Baume-les-Messieurs, following in the heritage of Josette Coras, who was the "owner-artist-in-residence" there from 1951 to 2007, is organising two exhibitions this summer and this autumn which...
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LUCA AND TREE OF LIFE/LUCA ET L'ARBRE DE LA VIE
LUCA is an acronym for Last Universal Common Ancestor, or sometimes simply Last Common Ancestor. I came across it yesterday during a visit to the Science Museum in Dijon, which has recently re-opened...
View ArticleORIGAMI ART OR APPLIED MATHS/L'ART DE L'ORIGAMI OU LES MATHS APPLIQUES
I have found a fascinating video this morning about origami and maths. It is a short lecture - about 15 minutes - by Robert Lang, a pioneer of origami figures to be used in technology and also in art....
View ArticleLANG'S SITE/LE SITE DE ROBERT LANG
To follow up after my discovery of Lang's lecture on origami, I direct you to his site, on which you can download the precious Treemaker software to create origami patterns. Here is the...
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