Alumni

Marie Thébaud-Sorger

Visiting Scholar (2016)

PhD, Research Associate Professor, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Marie Thébaud-Sorger is a Research Associate Professor (researcher) at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) based in Paris at the Centre for the History of Science and Technology – Alexandre Koyré at the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). After studying the reception of the lighter-than-air machines in French and European societies in her first monograph Ballooning in the Age of Enlightenment (L’aérostation au temps des Lumières, 2009), and the culture of flight on the long run, she has also done research on insurance and compensation practices in the context of artisanal and industrial activities in the eighteenth-century London and Paris. Her current research on “The economies of improvements” intends to link knowledge on materials, marketplace, social reform and technological hazards management. By comparing several urban contexts (in France, Britain, Germany, Netherlands...) her aim is to explore, through an array of artefacts and micro inventions, how inventive practices in Eighteenth century Europe shaped communities around technical improvements.

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Managing Heat, Gases, and Steam in Everyday Life: Urban Micro Inventions in Enlightened Europe

MEHR

Selected Publications

Thébaud-Sorger, Marie (2017). “Capturing the Invisible: Heat, Steam and Gases in France and Great Britain, 1750-1800.” In Compound Histories: Materials, Governance, and Production, 1760-1840, ed. L. L. Roberts and S. Werrett, 85–105. Leiden: Brill…

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Thébaud-Sorger, Marie (2015). “Le spectacle de science.” In L’Histoire des sciences modernes, ed. S. van Damme. Éditions du Seuil.

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Thébaud-Sorger, Marie, Thomas Le Roux, and Claire Barillé (2014). “Grenelle 1794: secourir, indemniser et soigner les victimes d’une catastrophe industrielle .” Le mouvement social 249 (4): 41–71.

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Thébaud-Sorger, Marie and Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (2014). “Risque d’incendie en milieu urbain et ‘industrious revolution’ : le cas de Londres dans le dernier tiers du XVIIIsiècle.” Le mouvement social 249 (4): 21–39.

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