Pierre Brunet (science historian)

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Pierre Brunet (* 1893 in Trévoux ; † November 30, 1950 ) was a French science historian.

He attended the college in Thoissey and studied law in Lyon , but switched to philosophy, where Edmond Goblot was his teacher. He received a licentiate in philosophy and taught in Auxonne , Sens and Joigny after the First World War . He then went to the Center Internationale de Synthèse (CIS) of Henri Berr and Aldo Mieli in Paris.

In 1929 he did his doctorate on Maupertuis (and also published on the history of the principle of the smallest effect ) and in 1935 the first volume of a history of science appeared, which he wrote with Aldo Mieli. He also looked at the role of Dutch physicists in introducing the experimental method of physics in France and introducing the teaching of Isaac Newton in France in the 18th century and with Alexis Claude Clairaut .

Before the German occupation he evaded to Vienne . After the war he headed the library of the CIS (after Mieli went to Argentina), whose research was now funded by the CNRS . He was also the editor of the Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, which was founded in 1947 (later edited by René Taton and Suzanne Delorme ) and worked for the International Academy of the History of Science . He prepared a scientific history of the Middle Ages, but fell ill and withdrew to Vienne. He is buried in Trévoux.

He wrote poems from which Berr quotes in his obituary.

Fonts

  • Maupertuis, étude biographique, Paris: A. Blanchard 1929
  • Les physiciens hollandaise et la la méthode experimentale en France au 18e siècle, Paris 1926
  • with Aldo Mieli: Histoire des sciences, Antiquité, 1935
  • L'introduction des theories de Newton en France au XVIIIe siecle, Paris: Blanchard 1931, Archives
  • Étude historique sur le principe de la moindre action, 1938
  • La vie et l'oeuvre de Clairaut (1713–1765), Paris, Press Universitaire de France 1951

literature

  • Henri Berr: In memoriam Pierre Brunet, Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, Volume 4, 1951, pp. 5-12, online
personal data
SURNAME Brunet, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Trévoux
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1950