1. Epistemological and Social Problems of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century
2. 1795–1835. PV, Procès-verbaux des séances de l'Académie… 1910–1922. Paris 10 vols. general index volume 1979, Paris In the Revolutionary period theAcadémic des Sciencesbecame one of the classes of theInstitut de France. I refer to ‘Académie’ or ‘class’ as appropriate.
3. Scientific education versus military training: The influence of Napoleon Bonaparte on the Ecole Polytechnique
4. Olivier , T. 1851. De l'Ecole Polytechnique’ to hisMémoires de géométrie descriptive, théorique et appliquée Vol. v, xi–xii. Paris 1847 preface (where he claimed that Laplace and Poisson later ‘sincerely deplored their error’ and hoped that Cauchy would too). See also his ‘Monge et l'Ecole Polytechnique’,Rev. sci. ind., no. 128 (September 1850), 64–68. In the late 1820s he was one of the founders of theEcole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, a school for industrial engineers modelled on Monge's hopes for the public service engineering schoolEcole Centrale des Travaux Publics(as theEPwas first called).