This article examines how the English and French patent regimes contributed to the formation of technological knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the 1730s in England and the 1790s in France, patent requests were required to include ...
Qu’est-ce que le « dessin technique » ? Longtemps réduite au dessin de machines, au dessin d’ingénieur et au dessin industriel, l’expression désigne ici tout dessin qui encode un savoir technique et se veut un guide pour l’action. Partant de domaines d’act ...
Citizen scientists around the world are collecting data with their smartphones, performing scientific calculations on their home computers, and analyzing images on online platforms. These online citizen science projects are frequently lauded for their pote ...
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 ...
