{"title":"“The Substance of Things Hoped for”: Peter Gordon White and the New Curriculum of The United Church of Canada","authors":"Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr","doi":"10.7202/1032711AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1032711AR","url":null,"abstract":"For the United Church of Canada, the “New Curriculum” achieved its main objective of renewing bible study for all age groups, with the added bonus of gaining publicity for the church itself. However, the massive project took a huge investment that was neither properly funded nor ultimately realized. The editor-in-chief, Peter Gordon White, unjustly blamed himself for the problems that resulted; however, the project was extremely well managed and produced on schedule. Nor did the calls to burn the New Curriculum due to its overtly modernist biblical interpretations directly cause financial problems. Instead, it was almost universally adopted by United Churches across the country. The problems arose mainly from a disconnect between the world the New Curriculum was conceived in (1950s) and the world it was launched into (1960s). This paper explores the New Curriculum’s successes and failures, and its contribution to the downfall of Canada’s largest publishing house, The Ryerson Press.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130990288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Sorel et la légitimité de La science universelle","authors":"Marie-Florence Sguaitamatti","doi":"10.7202/1027691AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027691AR","url":null,"abstract":"Dans le premier volume de La science universelle, paru en 1634, Charles Sorel situe son projet encyclopedique de maniere polemique par rapport aux autorites controlant les « paroles » et les « choses ». En meme temps, Sorel definit l’auctorialite dans le contexte de l’opposition entre ouvrages de « divertissement » et ouvrages « serieux » ‒ opposition dont il montre comment elle pourrait etre utilisee pour mettre en question son projet encyclopedique. Cet article etudie la maniere dont Sorel allie la reflexion sur l’auctorialite et le discours sur le renouveau de la science pour evoquer le caractere insolite de son entreprise encyclopedique, tout en definissant un contexte dans lequel son ouvrage pourrait legitimement s’inserer.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124651735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La diffusion de la science linnéenne à travers la Philosophie botanique","authors":"S. Moreau","doi":"10.7202/1027692AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027692AR","url":null,"abstract":"Carl von Linne (1707-1778), naturaliste suedois, devoile son systeme en 1735. A l’epoque de cette publication, il n’est pas un naturaliste reconnu. L’evocation de son simple nom ne confere pas a son oeuvre une autorite telle qu’elle puisse expliquer son succes. De plus, la diffusion de son travail cree de profondes polemiques. Dans ces conditions, par quelles strategies Linne diffuse-t-il son systeme et s’impose-t-il lui-meme dans la cohorte des naturalistes de renom? Cette question en appelle une autre : quelles sont les modalites du succes qu’il connait en quelques annees et jusqu’a quel point son oeuvre vise-t-elle et atteint-elle un large public de scientifiques, mais aussi d’amateurs? Nous etudierons ces questions pour le seul cas de la botanique, dans un ouvrage de 1751, la Philosophie botanique, qui reprend ou compile l’ensemble des principes developpes par Linne dans ses ouvrages precedents.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"554 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127673608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Société royale de Botanique de Belgique (1862-1875) : tourments identitaires et éditoriaux d’une jeune société savante","authors":"Denis Diagre-Vanderpelen","doi":"10.7202/1027696AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027696AR","url":null,"abstract":"Cette contribution decrit un aspect particulier de la vie de la Societe royale de Botanique de Belgique, durant ses 14 premieres annees d’existence. Nee en 1862, cette societe savante specialisee se voulait, au contraire de l’elitiste Academie royale de Belgique, un lieu de sociabilite ouvert a tous les botanistes, amateurs comme professionnels, en rendant accessibles aux moins aguerris d’entre eux les pages de son Bulletin. Rapidement « capturee » par les professionnels de la science − ou aspirants tels − et par leurs ambitions, la societe s’eloigna des amateurs, un « en bas scientifique » indispensable a sa survie financiere, et une tension gagna la politique editoriale du Bulletin. Certains en voulaient hausser le niveau, d’autres y voulaient laisser une place aux auteurs plus modestes. Role des personnalites dans les societes savantes, bottom-up science, vulgarisation et professionnalisation des sciences, sont autant de themes qui se donnent a voir dans cette etude.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123863120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vulgariser la science pour réaffirmer son rôle de savant. L’Essai philosophique sur les probabilités de Laplace","authors":"Claudio Grimaldi","doi":"10.7202/1027693AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027693AR","url":null,"abstract":"Scientifique parmi les plus celebres de la fin du xviiie siecle et du debut du xixe siecle, Pierre-Simon de Laplace se veut un grand vulgarisateur de ses decouvertes. Son Essai philosophique sur les probabilites temoigne de l’importance attachee par le savant a ce domaine, que les philosophes, a son epoque, considerent souvent en marge des autres savoirs scientifiques. A travers cet ouvrage, Laplace essaie, d’une part, d’etablir sa puissance institutionnelle et auctoriale et, de l’autre, de convaincre aussi bien les savants que les non-scientifiques de la validite de ses theories. Nous nous proposons d’analyser ici les dynamiques de vulgarisation des savoirs mises en oeuvre par Laplace dans cet ouvrage afin de demontrer, notamment au moyen des reflexions portant sur des choix discursifs et linguistiques, que celles-ci n’ont que l’apparence d’une vulgarisation, reaffirmant plutot les enjeux institutionnels et auctoriaux lies au pouvoir, a l’epoque laplacienne.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123203436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“What is the cocoon but a dark cabinet?” : Benjamin O. Flower, Print Culture and the Legitimisation of Fringe Science in the 1890s","authors":"Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet","doi":"10.7202/1027697AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027697AR","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how Boston editor and publisher Benjamin O. Flower used print culture to circulate and legitimise fringe science in the 1890s. Using evolutionary theory as a template for progress, he considered hypnotism and spiritualism – what he called “psychical research” ‒ as the natural extension of environmental meliorism from the visible to the invisible. This article examines the transatlantic dimension of the idea of a “science of mind” and how it led Flower to formulate a spiritual and materialist conception of the influence of print. It describes the rhetorical strategies, the scientific procedures and institutionalisation policies he adopted in his quest to naturalise the invisible and subject it to the purview of methodological naturalism. Finally, it explores the epistemological foundations of Flower’s redefinition of the boundaries of legitimate science.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130704146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Practice to Print: Women Crafting Authority at the Margins of Orthodox Medicine","authors":"M. Carlyle","doi":"10.7202/1027690AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027690AR","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes how a category of women possessing medical secrets known as “femmes a secrets” entered commercial medicine in mid- to late-xviiith-century Paris. It reads sources including remedy patents and printed publicity with a view to exploring women’s agency in producing and peddling medical products and services within the burgeoning marketplace. It shows how this form of “fringe” practice provided a unique forum where women cultivated their authority outside of learned medicine while also interacting with it. In doing so, the article displaces traditional narratives which position charlatans and quacks as the primary practitioners who colonized the margins of medical practice. Instead, it provides an account of women as examples of the dynamic “fringe” practitioners who strove to prove their genuine authority across a variety of domains. By bringing their practice to print, enterprising women succeeding in staking out their claim to expertise in a growing and increasingly consumerist, legislated, and policed medical milieu, where the boundaries between “expert” and “amateur” knowledge traditions were becoming increasingly blurred.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132016147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sociabilité épistolaire et stratégies éditoriales : mobilisation d’un réseau social dans la réédition du Poème sur l’Astronomie chez Gudin de La Brenellerie","authors":"Ch. Grenier","doi":"10.7202/1027694AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027694AR","url":null,"abstract":"En 1801, Paul Philippe Gudin de La Brenellerie publie un poeme didactique intitule L’Astronomie, poeme en 3 chants (qu’il reeditera en 1810). Edite d’abord en province, a Auxerre, l’ouvrage passe a peu pres inapercu. A cette epoque, le gout pour la poesie didactique a amorce un declin puisqu’une separation s’est lentement installee entre les lettres et les sciences et que, dans son processus d’autonomisation, la litterature a vu son champ se retrecir. Malgre cela, dans les annees qui suivront la premiere edition de son poeme, Gudin s’armera de strategies pour faire valoir son ouvrage aupres de diverses instances de legitimation du milieu savant en vue d’une reedition plus prestigieuse. L’article propose portera sur les strategies employees par l’auteur pour exploiter son reseau social dans le double objectif de bonifier son ouvrage, puis d’en diffuser la seconde edition. Nous nous appuierons en particulier sur la correspondance entre Gudin et Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, Nicolas Ruault et Constance de Theis.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123049468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La littérature alchimique (1550-1715) : écriture et savoir à la marge?","authors":"V. Adam","doi":"10.7202/1027689AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027689AR","url":null,"abstract":"La litterature alchimique du milieu du xvie au debut du xviiie siecle manifeste une tension entre une marginalisation subie, notamment politique et sociale, et une marginalisation voulue, induite par les choix d’ecriture et d’anonymat de son auteur. Certains ouvrages alchimiques se servent de cette marginalisation, imposee ou volontaire, pour instaurer leurs propres autorites, soit en les cautionnant par des modeles institues, soit en leur donnant une apparence acceptable et legitime et en les dotant d’une polyvalence capable d’englober les autres savoirs. La persona de l’auteur se construit alors comme un passeur de savoir, conferant, en particulier au livre qui expose la genese legitime mais merveilleuse de son savoir, une fonction symbolique qui permet de lire dans sa materialite le signe de l’adequation entre l’apparence du discours alchimique et le contenu qu’il revele.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129004186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ni savants, ni populaires : la stratégie éditoriale des « Trésors de médecine » à la Renaissance","authors":"Anne Réach-Ngô","doi":"10.7202/1027688AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027688AR","url":null,"abstract":"Les ouvrages de medecine qui s’intitulent « Tresor » constituent un corpus fecond pour qui s’interesse a la participation des milieux editoriaux a la transmission des connaissances et experiences heritees, durant la Renaissance. Envisagee comme un produit editorial visant a rassembler en de petits ouvrages commodes d’emploi les ecrits les plus celebres des autorites en la matiere, la categorie des « Tresors de medecine » tire sa valeur aussi bien de la reconnaissance accordee a ces ecrits, a la fois theoriques et pratiques, que du souci de les transmettre au plus grand nombre. Le choix de la langue vernaculaire, les nombreuses aides a la lecture, le cout modere de ces ouvrages contribuent a inscrire ces publications dans la vaste entreprise de vulgarisation des savoirs nee du developpement de l’imprime, tout en promettant a leurs lecteurs, par la rhetorique titulaire et prefacielle des « Tresors », des ouvrages d’exception.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131773100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}