"The Pyrenees are not hollow": the mountain as a boundary object "Os Pirineus não são ecos": a montanha como objeto de fronteira
In Toulouse, around 1850, a controversy about the structure of the Pyrenees pitted observatory director Frederic Petit against geology professor Alexandre Leymerie. The object of the debate was an assumption formulated by Petit: that the inside of the Pyrenees was practically hollow. This proposal w...
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Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2009-09-01
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Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702009000300014 |
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