![]() MUSE delivers outstanding results to the scholarly community by maximizing revenues for publishers, providing value to libraries, and enabling access for scholars worldwide. Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content, providing access to journal and book content from nearly 300 publishers. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. He was appointed professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in 1819.ĭupin also had a political career and was appointed to the Senate in 1852.One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. In 1818 Dupin was elected to the body of the French Academy of Sciences. He founded the Toulon Maritime Museum in 1813. One of his students was Giovanni Carandino, who would go on to be the founder of the Greek Mathematics School in the 1820s.įrom 1807 Dupin was responsible for the restoration of the damaged port and arsenal at Corfu. Dupin participated in the Greek science revival by teaching mathematics and mechanics lessons in Corfu in 1808. He was the discoverer of conjugate tangents to a point on a surface and of the Dupin indicatrix. His mathematical work was in descriptive and differential geometry. Plate XIII: Portes des Canal de Calédonien.Ĭharles Duoin: Baron Pierre Charles François Dupin (6 October 1784, Varzy, Nièvre – 18 January 1873, Paris, France) was a French Catholic mathematician, engineer, economist and politician, particularly known for work in the field of mathematics, where the Dupin cyclide and Dupin indicatrix are named after him and for his work in the field of statistical and thematic mapping, in 1826 he created the earliest known choropleth map.ĭupin studied geometry with Monge at the École Polytechnique and then became a naval engineer. Plate XII: Forme de construction exécutée au port Dundée, Topographie du canal Calédonien. Plate VIII: Grue en Fer du port de Hull, Pont tournant des Docks de Londres. Plate VII: Pont suspendu construit en Angleterre pour I'lle de Bourbon. Plate VI: Pont suspendu de Kelso sur le Tweed, Embarcadère suspendu construit à Leith prés d'Edinburgh. Plate V: Pont de Hemsdale, Pont de Dunkeld sur le Tay, Pont de Potarch sur le Dée, Pont de Craig Ellachie, Pont de Conan (Comté de Ross), Pont de Bonar sur la Firth de Dornoch, Pont d'Adrie, Pont de Easter Foarn, Pont d'Aultmore, Pont de Cartland sur la Mouse, Nouveau Pont de Londres. Plate: IV: Pont de Westminster, Pont du Strand. Plate II: Pont de Sunderland sur le Wear, Pont de Coalbrookdale. Plate I: Aquedue en Fer de Pont Cysylte, Aquedue de Langdon, Aquedue de Chirk, Galerie du canal du Prince Regent à Londres. My observations on these subjects were derived from a residence of five years in England during which time I was constantly employed in visiting and viewing every object and institution worthy of notice relative to the British Army and Navy." "In the following work, I have endeavored to exhibit the full extent of the Military and Naval Forces which the government of Great Britain can bring into the field, or launch upon the ocean. This work is the result which placed him in the foremost rank of statisticians. In 1816, after some difficulty, Charles Dupin was allowed to visit Great Britain to study its commerce and industry. Première section - Travaux Publics et D'associationġ824 - Imprimerie de Fain, Place de l'Odéon.Ī Volume of plates to accompany Charles Dupin's Voyages dans la Grande-Bretagne, 1824.
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