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L’espace dans la géométrie et l’épistémologie pascaliennes (2023)

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L’objet de cet article est de montrer que la conception pascalienne de l’espace en soi, libéré de la référence aux choses qui l’occupent, ne prend pas racine dans l’hypothèse physique du vide, mais participe, en tant que notion primitive de la pensée, du fondement de la connaissance humaine. Ainsi compris au rang des évidences naturelles, l’espace s’offre comme l’objet principal d’une nouvelle géométrie qui s’affranchit des considérations métriques des grandeurs au profit d’une approche qualitative. La notion d’espace est ultimement interrogée dans son volet anthropologique à l’aune du fragment L. 199, « Disproportion de l’homme ». [The aim of this article is to show that Pascal's conception of space per se, freed from reference to the things that occupy it, is not rooted in the physical hypothesis of the void, but, as a primitive notion of thought, forms part of the foundation of human knowledge. Space is thus included in the rank of natural evidences, and becomes the principal object of a new geometry that frees itself from metric considerations of magnitude in favor of a qualitative approach. The notion of space is ultimately questioned in its anthropological aspect, in the light of fragment L. 199, “Man's disproportion”. Translated with DeepL.com (free version).]

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Authors & Contributors
Bold, Stephen C.
Rabouin, David
João Cortese
Bouchilloux, Hélène
Conley, Tom
Debuiche, Valérie
Journals
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Foundations of Science
Historia Mathematica
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
New York University
Droz
Ministère de l'Education Nationale, Académie de Rouen
Reaktion Books
Schwabe
Concepts
Geometry
Mathematics
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy
Mathematics and its relationship to science
Theology
People
Pascal, Blaise
Descartes, René
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Wallis, John
Archimedes
Galilei, Galileo
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Ancient
Places
France
Great Britain
Germany
England
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