By Stanley L. Jaki (auth.)
A hundred years have now passed by considering within the midsummer of 1882 Pierre Duhem, a graduate of faculty Stanislas, accomplished with very good luck his front checks to the Ecole Normale Superieure and launched into his profession as a theoretical physicist. His father, a cloth salesman, was hoping that Hierre might pursue a profession in enterprise, one of many few specialist fields the place possibly he don't have succeeded. now not that younger Duhem lacked experience for the sensible. He may have simply made a reputation for himself as an artist had he constructed professionally his ability to attract photos and landscapes. His skill to make some extent and his readiness to hitch in a debate, may have earned him reputation as a attorney. a possible actor used to be in sight whilst he entertained associates with mimicry. That as a scholar of physics he entered and stayed first in his type on the Ecole Normale, didn't thwart his skills for the existence sciences. No much less a biologist than Pasteur attempted to procure Duhem for assistant. His command of Greek and Latin may have secured him a occupation as a classicist. He was once a Frenchman, to not be met too frequently, whose rightful advert miration for and mastery of his local tongue, didn't turn out a barrier to the most important smooth languages. As person who taught himself the advanced artwork of medieval paleo graphy, he may perhaps simply have mastered the numerous auxiliary sciences wanted through a consummate historian.
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42. Quoted by A. : Essential Books, 1958), p. x. 43. It is unlikely that the Duhem family took advantage of the coach service which the College provided for the transportation of day students. 19 and back he had, at least in the long days of late spring and early summer, also the advantage of seeing plenty of the new buildings and avenues. Pierre's regular route to school did not pass too far from the Place Dauphine area under demolition in 1872. In 1873 there came the restoration of the column of Place Vend6me.
See Archeion 19 (1937): 149. 91. E. Jordan, 'Duhem,' p. 159. This most valuable obituary notice was part (pp. 158-73) of the section, 'Notice sur les membres decedes' (pp. 9-206), in Association Amicale de Secours des Ancien Eleves de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, the yearbook published by the Association in Paris in 1917. 93. Duhem's reminiscences on Moutier will be discussed later. 94. , 1898, pp. 941-2) with a brief updating in the 4th edition (1904, p. 1037), no French encyclopedias have an entry on him.
He used to take there specimens of his own collections, ranging from minerals to lizards, and compare them with those exhibited in the Museum. His sister was somewhat too admiring in stating that Pierre 'was to remain ... at the head of his class' since his 49. , p. 39. 50. , pp. 35-36. 51. , p. 38. 52. , p. 36. 22 entrance in the College. 53 The Annuaires give a somewhat different picture. At the end of his third year (summer 1875) Pierre ranked fifth in a section of 33, and fourth in a section of 34 at the end of the next school year, which saw him finish grand college.