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Comment envisager, en ce début de xxie siècle, notre manière d'aborder la connaissance ? Les sciences et les arts peuvent-ils trouver un terrain d'entente pour avancer de concert ? Le tournant des Lumières offre des éléments de réponse. À ce moment si particulier de l'histoire de la pensée européenne, quelques « hommes de savoir » connus (D'Alembert, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Alexandre de Humboldt) ou plus oubliés (Ramond de Carbonnières, Pizzi, Reichardt, Cabanis, Ebel, Michaud) ont permis à la science, à l'histoire et à la littérature de nouer un fructueux dialogue. En se penchant sur leur formation, leurs lectures, leur statut social, mais aussi leurs écrits, où s'entrecroisent démarche scientifique, pratiques d'écriture et vision du monde, on fait ici sortir de l'oubli des « passeurs » parfois injustement tournés en dérision par notre siècle encore empreint de positivisme. Ces monographies intéresseront quiconque cherche à comprendre le temps présent à la lumière du passé.

History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe --- Learning and scholarship --- Enlightenment --- History --- Intellectual life --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Enlightenment. --- Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 18th century --- Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 19th century --- Europe - Intellectual life - 18th century --- Europe - Intellectual life - 19th century --- sciences --- mouvement des Lumières --- littérature --- savoir --- érudition --- Savoir et érudition --- Mouvement des lumières --- 18e siècle --- 19e siècle

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Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and Revolution. 'When information came of age' argues that the key to the present era lies in understanding the systems developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to gather, store, transform, display, and communicate information. The book provides a concise and readable survey of the many conceptual developments between 1700 and 1850 and draws connections to leading technologies of today. It documents three breakthroughs in information systems that date to the period : the classification and nomenclature of Linneaus, the chemical system devised by Lavoisier, and the metric system. It shows how eighteenth-century political arithmetricians and demographers pioneered statistics and graphs as a means for presenting data succinctly and visually. It describes the transformation of cartography from art to science as it incorporated new methods for determining longitude at sea and new data on the measure the arc of the meridian on land. Finally, it looks at the early steps in codifying and transmitting information, including the development of dictionaries, the invention of semaphore telegraphs and naval flag signaling, and the conceptual changes in the use and purpose of postal services. 'When information came of age' shows that like the roots of democracy and industrialization, the foundations of the Information Age were built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Enlightenment --- Lumières (Philosophie) --- Lumières [Siècle des ] --- Siècle des Lumières --- Verlichting (Filosofie) --- Learning and scholarship --- Information resources --- History --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- 316.77 --- 930.85:02 --- 930.85.48 --- 002.001 --- 094:03 --- 141.132 --- -Learning and scholarship --- -Information resources --- -Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Information sources --- Resources, Information --- Sources of information --- Information science --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Communicatiesociologie --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Informatiewetenschap. Informatiekunde --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Encyclopedieën. Naslagwerken--(Algemene) --- Rationalisme. Intellectualisme. Universalisme. Aufklärung. Verlichting --- -History --- -Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- -Intellectual life --- -Enlightenment. --- -316.77 --- 141.132 Rationalisme. Intellectualisme. Universalisme. Aufklärung. Verlichting --- 094:03 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Encyclopedieën. Naslagwerken--(Algemene) --- 002.001 Informatiewetenschap. Informatiekunde --- 930.85.48 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- 930.85:02 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- 316.77 Communicatiesociologie --- Enlightenment. --- 18th century --- 19th century --- Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 18th century --- Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 19th century --- Information resources - Europe - History - 19th century --- Information resources - Europe - History - 18th century --- Europe - Intellectual life - 18th century --- Europe - Intellectual life - 19th century