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Simon François Dumas Primbault

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Understanding Digital Libraries as Open Spaces

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Building on an ongoing case study of how readers navigate the corpus of BnF Gallica and on a nascent project at OpenEdition, I will venture an understanding of digital libraries as open spaces at the crossroads of political spaces—with their governance res ...

2023

Matérialiser la raison computationnelle au XVIIe siècle. Du papier au laiton, les nombreuses matérialités de la machine à calculer de Leibniz

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Entre 1671 et 1716, le mathématicien allemand Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz s’est essayé à concevoir une machine à calculer sans jamais réussir à produire un prototype fonctionnel, malgré un travail en étroite collaboration avec l’horloger parisien Ollivier. E ...

2023

Preprint of a programmatic article on the governance and ecology of digital knowledge infrastructures stemming from a year of seminars and workshops led between September 2021 and June 2022 at the Laboratory for the history of science and technology (LHST) ...

2023

Sur les pas de savants genevois du 18e

Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu, Simon François Dumas Primbault

Sophie Iselin vous emmène en direction du sommet du Mont Buet, à plus de 3'000 mètres d'altitude, partager le parcours et reproduire les expériences de scientifiques qui ont pris les premières mesures en montagne au 18e siècle. Reportage en compagnie de St ...

2022

How to Orient Oneself in Thinking in the Digital Era: A mixed-methods ethnography of researchers' navigational practices on Gallica

Simon François Dumas Primbault

The birth and development of digital libraries—broadly understood as curated collections of electronic documents accessible online on dedicated platforms with tools for search and consultation—have radically transformed research activities. Consequently, t ...

2022

Science on the Summit: Exploring Scientific Tourism Through the Lens of Eighteenth Century Mountain Ascents

Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu, Simon François Dumas Primbault

This contribution argues that a particular scientific context made summits a place of interest for eighteenth-century travelers. This development is connected to two particular scientific practices. First, the challenges raised by making the barometer into ...

2022

Between 1675 and 1676, while in Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) got privileged access to some geometric manuscripts from late Blaise Pascal’s hand. Although said manuscripts are not extant, Leibniz’s reading notes were preserved, together with ...

2022

At the crossroads of the ethnography of scholarly practices and digital humanities, this study proposes to consider the exploratory aspect of the scientific activity as an intellectual path through a corpus made accessible by an online platform. My case st ...

2022

Between 1671 and 1716, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz attempted to design a reckoning machine. Working closely with the Parisian clockmaker Monsieur Ollivier, Leibniz eventually failed at producing a working prototype. After the redisco ...

2022

Du P.L.A.O. à Gallica, une étude historico-ethnographique des pratiques de recherche à l’ère de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (1989-2021)

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Cette intervention s’inscrit dans une recherche interdisciplinaire plus large sur les pratiques matérielles de navigation savante dans les bibliothèques numériques et ce que celles-ci trahissent de la manière dont les chercheur·se·s s’orientent dans la pen ...

2022