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29 janvier 2024
- doi: 10.4000/books.mnhn.14757
- isbn: 978-2-85653-995-8
- eisbn: 978-2-85653-996-5
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Stéphane Schmitt, « Foreword », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10.4000/books.mnhn.14757
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As Cuvier embarked on his lectures on the history of the natural sciences at the Collège de France, he joined a complex, long-term movement in which the history of scientific disciplines gradually emerged as an independent field of study. Since time immemorial, scholars have often turned to the past, perhaps as an introduction to their writings, to put their work in perspective with that of their predecessors, to praise or criticize the latter, or to emphasize the originality and superiority...