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After the French Revolution, the reorganization of teaching in France concerned schools for civil and military engineers, for teachers, and for workers. Gaspard Monge was involved in the projects to create these schools and he proposed what he called “descriptive geometry” for all of them. In 1794–1795, he gave two different courses, one in the Ecole normale de l’an III, devoted to future teachers, and the other one in the Ecole centrale des travaux publics, which will become the Ecole polytechnique, devoted to engineers and the military. Monge’s famous textbook Geometrie descriptive of 1799 is a transcription of the oral Lecons given in the Ecole normale. We analyze the Lecons, taking into account the context of this school. Then we examine teaching given by students of Monge, Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix and Jean-Nicolas Pierre Hachette, in the contexts of the Ecole centrale des Quatre-Nations, the Ecole polytechnique, and the Faculte des sciences de Paris. |
