Nuncius Library no. 57 - Les vérités de la science. Pratique, récit, histoire: le cas Pasteur

Area:	Institute
Start:	1 October 2005
Description:	Most of the literature concerning Louis Pasteur is fundamentally hagiographic, distorted by myths and based on scientists' uncritical accounts exalting his genius. Here, the author uses the method applied to the study of Claude Bernard by the historian Mirko Grmek. Following a strictly evidence-based approach free of all preconceived notions, the author has subjected all of Pasteur's works, manuscripts and correspondence to a minute re-examination, from which emerges a new image of this genius and his collaborators, especially the shy and reserved Emile Roux.
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