Aux origines de la police scientifique

Mazliak, Laurent; Mansuy, Romuald

doi:10.3917/kart.piaz.2011.01.0354

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“…Poincaré regarded this difference as a first-order violation of the relativity principle, the expected counterpart of the first-order violation of the principle of reaction. 53 In this calculation, Poincaré used Lorentz's first-order field transformations, including the local time t = t−ux /c 2 , which he defined in the following manner: 54 I suppose that observers placed in different points [of the moving frame] set their watches by means of optical signals; that they try to correct these signals by the transmission time, but that, ignoring their translational motion and thus believing that the signals travel at the same speed in both directions, they content themselves with crossing the observations, by sending one signal from A to B, then another from B to A. The local time is the time given by watches adjusted in this manner.…”

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“…The novelty is that these series are devoid of the disturbing secular terms, containing powers of the time t outside the sines and cosines, which, growing without limits, did spoil the series given by the "old methods" and appear now as mere artefacts of the Taylor expansion 53 . Poincaré 53 It is fair to quote d'Alembert who, in 1759, writes somewhat bitterly in volume 9 of the Encyclopédie [En,C6]: …”

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“…Besides, this was not Poincaré's first intervention in the Dreyfus case: during the judicial review of 1899 in Rennes of the decision of 1894, Painlevé read a letter of Poincaré criticizing Bertillon's work for its lack of scientific foundation. This story is well known and has been narrated in detail many times ( [52], [53], [81]) and I shall not dwell on it further. However, one may ask why it was Poincaré who was called upon to carry out this task.…”

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Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012

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“…Anthropometric laboratories sprang up in Europe, North and South America, and even Japan (Mansuy & Mazliak, 2011). In England, Francis Galton applied the same technique of search and retrieval but focused all measurements on the character of an individual's fingertips.…”

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Bibliography as Anthropometry: Dreaming Scientific Order at the fin de siècle

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The 1890s saw an explosion of ambitious projects to build a massive classification of knowledge that would serve as a basis for universal catalogues of scientific publishing. The largest of these were the rival International Catalogue of Scientific Literature (London) and Répertoire Bibliographique Universel (Brussels). This essay argues that one widely influential but overlooked source of the enthusiasm for classification as a technology of search and retrieval during this period was the emergence of new methods and technologies for classifying and keeping track of people, and in particular, the criminal identification laboratory of Alphonse Bertillon located in Paris.John Shaw Billings, the doctor, medical bibliographer, and founding director of the New York Public Library, traveled to London in July 1896 to head the American delegation at the first of a series of London conferences to build an International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. In his toast at the opening banquet, he speculated that if the gathered delegates were completely successful in building the hoped-for Catalogue, "they might anticipate a time when men and things and thoughts also would be cataloged":They might look forward down the vista of years to the time when a stranger in Hyde Park would see a passer-by with such a number as 26.053, and would then at once appreciate his status in every respect, and when the novelist would proudly show that his heroine had 26 points in her character, while a rival writer had only achieved 19. (International Catalogue Conference, 1896, p. 250) Though Billings's classificatory fantasy of a world in which all individuals-whether real or fictional-had their place in a massive database was certainly tongue-in-cheek, it raises important historical questions. What

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Poincaré's Odds

Mazliak

2012

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This paper is devoted to Poincaré's work in probability. Though the subject does not represent a large part of the mathematician's achievements, it provides significant insight into the evolution of Poincaré's thought on several important matters such as the changes in physics implied by statistical mechanics and molecular theories. After having drawn the general historical context of this evolution, I focus on several important steps in Poincaré's texts dealing with probability theory, and eventually consider how his legacy was developed by the next generation.

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Aux origines de la police scientifique

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Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012

Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012

Bibliography as Anthropometry: Dreaming Scientific Order at the fin de siècle

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