The rise of the engineering profession in eighteenth century Europe: an introductory overview

Autor:	Hélène Vérin, Irina Gouzévitch
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Engineering profession media_common.quotation_subject General Engineering Enlightenment Identity (social science) Education Competition (economics) Politics History and Philosophy of Science Work (electrical) Reading (process) Economic history Sociology Social science Rivalry media_common
Zdroj:	Engineering Studies. 3:153-169
ISSN:	1940-8374 1937-8629
DOI:	10.1080/19378629.2011.626051
Popis:	Much work remains to be done on the role of engineers in Europe in the eighteenth century and we do not, in this short introductory survey, claim to offer an exhaustive historical perspective. Instead, we try to provide a framework within which to capture, by means of examples, the main lines of development. At this stage, it is not possible to cover all the national cases, nor even to provide a fully comparative analysis of those studies that have been undertaken. The aim is more modest: to suggest some hypotheses based on individual research and wide reading. For its initial results and a large bibliography on the question: Verin and Gouzevitch, Sobre la Institucion y el Desarrollo de la Ingeneria, 2005, 115–64. The century of European enlightenment (1697–1815), characterized by exchanges between scientists and academies, is also that of economic rivalry, technical competition, political conflict, and war. All these factors combine to produce in Europe a new practice of engineering in the midst of tran...
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