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Uneasy Genius: The Life And Work Of Pierre Duhem (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Uneasy Genius: The Life And Work Of Pierre Duhem (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 100
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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 barrier to the major modern
languages. As one who taught himself the complex art of medieval
paleo graphy, he could easily have mastered the many auxiliary
sciences needed by a consummate historian."
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