Ethnographie du Sud-Ouest de l'Angola. By P. Charles Estermann. Traduit du portugais par A. Husser. 2 tomes. Paris: Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, 1977. Pp. 679, ill. 120 FF.

Africa ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-112
Author(s):  
David Birmingham
Keyword(s):  
Académie Des Sciences ◽  
Paris Académie Des Sciences

Rousseau’s Languages: Music, Diplomacy, and Botany

Janus Head ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Fernando Calderón Quindós ◽  
M. Teresa Calderón Quindós ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Representation ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Musical Notation ◽  
Académie Des Sciences ◽  
Paris Académie Des Sciences

Little attention has been paid to some aspects of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s intellectual activity compared with others. His affairs as a diplomat, his contribution to music, and his affection for botany are only three of them. This article shows their connections with forms of expression in which words are replaced by other kinds of graphic representation, such as ideographic signs for their evocation and numbers for their efficiency and simplicity. These contributions were collected in his first and last intellectual projects: Project for Musical Notation (1742), a young man’s idealistic challenge presented before Paris Académie des Sciences–and rejected by them; and Characters of Botany (1776-1778), a private senescence enterprise.

Jean-Baptiste Biotetla météorite de L'Aigle, Paris: Académie des sciences, 2003.

Nuncius ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 499-501
Author(s):  
STEFANO CASATI
Keyword(s):  
Académie Des Sciences ◽  
Paris Académie Des Sciences
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