Napoleon's buttons : how 17 molecules changed history / by Le Couteur, Penny, 1943-

Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / by Gillispie, Charles Coulston

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Science and polity in France : the revolutionary and Napoleonic years / by Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Science and Polity in France : the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. by Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Table of Contents: “…The Consulate, 1799-1804; 5. Napoleon and Science; CHAPTER IX. Positivist Science; 1. …”
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The zodiac of Paris : how an improbable controversy over an ancient Egyptian artifact provoked a modern debate between religion and science / by Buchwald, Jed Z., Josefowicz, Diane Greco

Table of Contents: “…-- Antiquity imagined -- The origin of all religions -- On Napoleon's expedition -- One drawing, many words -- The dawn of the Zodiac controversies -- Ancient skies, censored -- Egypt captured in ink and porcelain -- Egyptian stars under Paris skies -- The Zodiac debates -- Champollion's cartouche.…”
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The zodiac of Paris : how an improbable controversy over an ancient Egyptian artifact provoked a modern debate between religion and science / by Buchwald, Jed Z.

Table of Contents: “…-- Antiquity imagined -- The origin of all religions -- On Napoleon's expedition -- One drawing, many words -- The dawn of the Zodiac controversies -- Ancient skies, censored -- Egypt captured in ink and porcelain -- Egyptian stars under Paris skies -- The Zodiac debates -- Champollion's cartouche.…”

Icons of mathematics : an exploration of twenty key images / by Alsina, Claudi

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Whatever happened to the metric system? : how America kept its feet / by Marciano, John Bemelmans

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Over and over again / by Chang, Gengzhe

Table of Contents: “…Morley's theorem and Napoleon's theorem --…”
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Euclid's window : the story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace / by Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-

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Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences mathématiques depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel / by Delambre, J. B. J. 1749-1822

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Wetenschap als roeping. Een geschiedenis van de Leuvense faculteit voor wetenschappen / by Vanpaemel, Geert

Table of Contents: “…Inleiding -- 1. Kind van Napoleon -- 2. Onderwijs, discipline en morele opvoeding -- 3. …”
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Genesis of the Salk Institute : the epic of its founders / by Bourgeois, Suzanne, 1931-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Pasteur connection -- The spirit of Paris -- Our dear Kahn Building -- Pioneering -- The McCloy boys -- Biology in human affairs -- A Napoleon from Byzantium -- Epilogue : fifty years later.…”

Icons of mathematics : an exploration of twenty key images / by Alsina, Claudi, Nelsen, Roger B.

Table of Contents: “…The bride's chair -- Zhou Bi Suan Jing -- Garfield's trapezoid -- The semicircle -- Similar figures -- Cevians -- The right triangle -- Napoleon's triangles -- Arcs and angles -- Polygons with circles -- Two circles -- Venn diagrams -- Overlapping figures -- Yin and yang -- Polygonal lines -- Star polygons -- Self-similar figures -- Tatami -- The rectangular hyperbola -- Tiling -- Solutions to the challenges.…”
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France in the age of the scientific state. by Gilpin, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Scientific research and national independence: the French view -- The Atlantic imbalance in science and technology -- The dimensions of the American challenge -- The heritage of the Napoleonic systems -- The American model of a scientific state -- Reform under the Fourth Republic -- Science policy under the Fifth Republic -- The Fifth Plan, 1966-1970 -- Defense, space, and atomic power -- The balance sheet of modernization: scientific and technical institutions -- The balance sheet of modernization: the professionalization and governance of science -- Prospects for a European solution to the technology gap -- The technology gap in political perspective.…”
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Genesis of the Salk Institute the epic of its founders / by Bourgeois, Suzanne, 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Biology in Human Affairs; 12. A Napoleon from Byzantium; Epilogue: Fifty Years Later; Notes; Abbreviations; References; Index.…”
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Gay-Lussac, scientist and bourgeois / by Crosland, Maurice P.

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Essai philosophique sur les probabilités / by Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827

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Exploring advanced Euclidean geometry with geogebra / by Venema, Gerard

Table of Contents: “…Tangent lines and angle bisectorsDesargues' theorem; Pascal's mystic hexagram; Brianchon's theorem; Pappus's theorem; Simson's theorem; Ptolemy's theorem; The butterfly theorem; Additional Topics in Triangle Geometry; Napoleon's theorem and the Napoleon point; The Torricelli point; van Aubel's theorem; Miquel's theorem and Miquel points; The Fermat point; Morley's theorem; Inversions in Circles; Inverting points; Inverting circles and lines; Othogonality; Angles and distances; The Poincaré Disk; The Poincaré disk model for hyperbolic geometry; The hyperbolic straightedge.…”
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Oeuvres de Fourier. by Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, 1768-1830

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