Pierre Costabel
Pierre Costabel (born October 24, 1912 in Draguignan , † November 20, 1989 in La Varenne Saint-Hilaire near Paris ) was a French historian of science.
Costabel, the son of a math teacher, studied at the École normal supérieure with a degree in mathematics from the Agrégation in 1935. After that he taught in Caen and Cherbourg , but was already interested in the history of mathematics and was supposed to be involved in the publication of the correspondence between Johann I Bernoulli and Varignon , which was prevented by the war. During the Second World War he was an officer and in a camp near Soest and near Nuremberg until 1945 as a prisoner of war, where he organized a university education in mathematics. After the war he joined the order of the Oratorians in 1949 and also completed a degree in theology with a licentiate in 1960. From 1950 to 1960 he taught mechanics at the Institut catholique in Paris and from 1952 to 1960 was director of the École Massillon of the oratorians. From 1960 he was at the École pratique des hautes études, where he became director in 1963. After Koyré's death in 1964, he became director of the Center de Recherches d'Histoire des Sciences (named after Koyré in 1966). In 1981 he retired.
As a science historian, he specialized in Cartesianism and the history of mechanics and re- edited the edition of the works of René Descartes by Adam and Tannery from 1964 to 1974 with Bernard Rochot (1900–1971) . He was also editor of the works of Malebranche and the letters of Johann I Bernoulli (with Jeanne Peiffer ). He was influenced by Alexandre Koyré , who had returned from the United States, after the Second World War .
From 1965 to 1983 he was permanent secretary of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences , of which he became a corresponding member in 1961 and a full member in 1963.
Fonts
- Leibniz et la dynamique: les textes de 1692 , Hermann 1960
- L'oratoire de France et ses collèges in René Taton (editor) Enseignement et diffusion des sciences en France , Paris, Hermann, 1964.
- with Bernard Rochot (editor) Œuvres de Descartes , 11 volumes, Paris: Vrin, 1964–1974
- Démarches originales de Descartes savant , Paris, Vrin, 1982.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Otto Fleckenstein took over the publication on behalf of Otto Spiess
- Literature by and about Pierre Costabel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Costabel, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Draguignan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1989 |
| Place of death | La Varenne Saint-Hilaire near Paris |