Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

• ERC SAW Project
  
  the SAW project is devoted to mathematical sources that have come down to us from the ancient world and, more specifically, though not exclusively, to the sources produced in Mesopotamia, China, and the Indian sub-continent. The ambition of SAW is to develop new theoretical approaches in the field of the history of ancient mathematics in order to highlight a motley of practices within what at the present day are too often presented as homogeneous wholes, that is, “Mesopotamian mathematics”, “Chinese mathematics”, and “Indian mathematics.” ...

 * ETHÉ Project (Epistemology, Ethics and Therapeutic Education), "Epistemological and ethical approach to therapeutic education in the field of Parkinson’s disease: knowledge transmitted, purposes, uses "
The ETHE project follows an exploratory research started in December 2016 within the framework of the ANR NormaStim project (14-CE30-0016-01), completed ANR project in which SPHERE was a partner from 2014 to 2017. This exploratory research was carried out by Mathilde Lancelot, doctoral student in philosophy, and by Aurélien Troisoeufs, post-doctoral fellow in anthropology at CERMES 3. It aimed to understand the specific status of therapeutic education courses on deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease compared to others pathologies.

• QUALENV
  
  What measures, what causality, what alerts to assess the quality of life in a risk environment?

• Memorials and remains of medical research in Africa
  
  The project explores the ways in which biomedical research generates memory and how its past practices are remembered, memorialized, commemorated, erased and lived with in African institutions, populations and landscapes. Combining archival and ethnographic methods, we focus on the material forms and practices of remembering (and forgetting) medical research around three medical research stations in Sub-Saharan Africa ...

• ICCM
  
  This project proposes a new approach to the history of science, technology and medicine in China from the sixteenth to the twentieth century - to assess the impact of individuals’ geographic mobility on the circulation of technical knowledge ...

• String games: cultural and cognitive aspects of a mathematical practice
  
  The practice of making a figure using a loop of thread or twine has been observed in various cultural areas, especially in societies with an oral tradition. Often identified as a ludic activity, this practice - "string games" - has aroused the interest of certain ethnologists since the end of the nineteenth century...

• The society of the spectacle
  
  While many scholars have studied the relations between Italy and the former Southern Netherlands during the Renaissance period, the period following this first exchange of ideas and forms has attracted less attention. The evolution of these close ties deserves to be studied beyond the 15th and 16th centuries, being particularly attentive to the slow shift of a humanist culture towards a so-called baroque culture ...

• History of digital tables
  
  Digital tables have been one of the most widely used computing instruments since the beginnings of mathematics until the appearance of computers. By "numerical table" we mean any type of text that establishes correspondences between two or more qualitative or quantitative phenomena, and endeavors to arrange on a plane surface, in a given manner, series of numerical values associated with these phenomena . One can look at the tables as calculation tools, but also as objects revealing scientific and social practices in various professional circles ...