Publications by Simon François Dumas Primbault

Mediating Science in the Mountain: Rethinking the Historian’s Craft through Digital Public Humanities

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

This article provides critical feedback on the design, development, and use of a multimedia website dedicated to a project on the history of science in the Alps during the Enlightenment. At the crossroads of the history of science and technology, experimen ...

2025

Discoverability in a Digital Library: A Study of "Rabbit Holes" within Gallica's Corpus

Simon François Dumas Primbault

The phenomenon of aimless web navigation, often compared to falling "down the rabbit hole, " brings to light significant aspects of the Internet's "long tail" concept. This research examines whether longer, non-goal-oriented web sessions genuinely lead use ...

CEUR2024

Un galiléen d'encre et de papier. Une histoire matérielle des brouillons de Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703)

Simon François Dumas Primbault

De Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703), l'historiographie a retenu le mathématicien, auteur de quelques ouvrages de géométrie euclidienne en lien avec les nuove scienze galiléennes. Celui qui se présentait lui-même comme le dernier disciple de Galilée a pourtant ...

Editions de la Sorbonne2024

Down the Rabbit Hole: Discoverability in a Digital Library

Simon François Dumas Primbault

2024

A Topological Data Analysis of Navigation Paths within Digital Libraries

Simon François Dumas Primbault

The digitization of library resources and services have opened up physical informational spaces to new dimensions by allowing users to access a wealth of documents in ways that di昀昀er from browsing bookshelves traditionally organized according to the "tree ...

2023

Experimenting with History

Simon François Dumas Primbault, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

2023

Mario Biagioli, Galilée et ses publics. Instruments, images et culture du secret (Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2022), tr. fr. Alcime Steiger, révisée par Émilie Dauphiné, préface d’Antonella Romano, 14 × 21,5 cm, 464 p., 19 fig., bibliogr., index nominum, tables

Simon François Dumas Primbault

2023

How Leibniz read Pascal’s Geometry: The Practice of Reading as Hybrid Hermeneutics in the Materiality of Leibniz’s Pascaliana

Simon François Dumas Primbault

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

Leibniz en Créateur. Un regard matériel sur sa machine à calculer

Simon François Dumas Primbault

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

A Posthumous Rivalry: On Borelli and Viviani's Relationship between the Accademia del Cimento and en Eighteenth-Century Controversy

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Between around 1656 and the late 1660s, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and Vincenzio Viviani, self-proclaimed last disciple of Galileo, collaborated on a host of math- ematical, physico-mathematical, and experimental problems, notably within the Acca- demia del ...

2022