Savantes nébuleuses: L'origine du monde entre marginalité et autorité scientifique (1860-1920) (2018)
D'o venons-nous Comment se sont forms les astres et les plantes Les origines cosmiques peuvent-elles tre interroges par la science, et qui est lgitime pour aborder scientifiquement ces questions Ce livre nous immerge dans le monde mconnu des auteurs de cosmogonies scientifiques du second XIXe sicle. A partir des annes 1860, avec la publication puis la traduction en franais de De l'origine des espces de Charles Darwin, avec le dveloppement de l'astronomie physique et l'essor de la vulgarisation scientifique, de nombreux savants de mtier mais galement des amateurs d'horizons varis - ingnieurs, officiers militaires, instituteurs ou ecclsiastiques - formulent des thories sur l'origine du monde et cherchent la reconnaissance des institutions scientifiques. Souvent dbattues aux marges d'une science alors en voie de professionnalisation, les origines cosmiques sont un sujet dlicat, au carrefour de l'astronomie et de la religion, de la preuve et de la spculation, du travail et du loisir. Par l'tude de ces cosmogonistes, pour la plupart oublis, cet ouvrage nous permet d'observer, de faon exemplaire, la manire dont les scientifiques et leurs institutions s'efforcent de rguler le dsir de participer la production du savoir qui parcourt largement la socit. Volny Fages nous raconte ici les dernires dcennies d'une cosmologie bouillonnante, voue disparatre avec la rupture pistmologique radicale due Albert Einstein, dont l'un des effets sera proprement sociologique, savoir une rduction drastique du nombre de personnes susceptibles d'y contribuer. "Where do we come from How the stars and plants were formed Can cosmic origins be questioned by science, and who is legitimate to scientifically address these questions This book immerses us in the unknown world of the authors of scientific cosmogonies of the second nineteenth century. From the 1860s, with the publication and then the translation into French of Charles Darwin's From the Origin of Species, with the development of physical astronomy and the rise of scientific popularization, many scientists in the field but also amateurs from various backgrounds - engineers, military officers, teachers or ecclesiastics - formulate theories on the origin of the world and seek recognition from scientific institutions. Often debated on the fringes of a science then in the process of professionalization, the cosmic origins are a delicate subject, at the crossroads of astronomy and religion, evidence and speculation, work and leisure. Through the study of these cosmogonists, for the most part forgotten, this work allows us to observe, in an exemplary manner, the way in which scientists and their institutions strive to regulate the desire to participate in the production of knowledge which widely spans the world. company. Volny Fages tells us here about the last decades of a bubbling cosmology, doomed to disappear with the radical pistmological rupture due to Albert Einstein, one of the effects of which will be properly sociological, namely a drastic reduction in the number of people likely to contribute to it." - Google translate
...MoreReview Helge Kragh (2019) Review of "Savantes nébuleuses: L'origine du monde entre marginalité et autorité scientifique (1860-1920)". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 453-455).
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