书目名称 | Uneasy Genius: The Life And Work Of Pierre Duhem | 编辑 | Stanley L. Jaki | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | A hundred years have now gone by since in the midsummer of 1882 Pierre Duhem, a graduate of College Stanislas, completed with brilliant success his entrance exams to the Ecole Normale Superieure and embarked on his career as a theoretical physicist. His father, a textile salesman, hoped that Hierre would pursue a career in business, one of the few professional fields where perhaps he would not have succeeded. Not that young Duhem lacked sense for the practical. He could have easily made a name for himself as an artist had he developed professionally his skill to draw portraits and landscapes. His ability to make a point and his readiness to join in a debate, could have earned him fame as a lawyer. A potential actor was in sight when he entertained friends with mimicry. That as a student of physics he entered and stayed first in his class at the Ecole Normale, did not thwart his talents for the life sciences. No less a biologist than Pasteur tried to obtain Duhem for assistant. His command of Greek and Latin would have secured him a career as a classicist. He was a Frenchman, not to be met too often, whose rightful ad miration for and mastery of his native tongue, did not prove a b | 出版日期 | Book 1987 | 关键词 | Inuit; art; catholics; continuity; event; french; growth; history of literature; landscape; metaphysics; mind; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3623-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-247-3532-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-3623-2Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 | issn_series | 0066-6610 | copyright | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1987 |
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