Premiere Partie Research Articles

Investigating a Disappearance: Multilingualism and Language Erasure in Assia Djebar’s La Disparition de la langue française

The title of Assia Djebar's 2003 novel La Disparition de la langue francaise provocatively announces the of the French language. Its content, which details the unsolved of its protagonist, offers readers a deceptively simple parallel between two disappearances. Berkane, the hero of the story and one of its narrators, disappears from a roadside in Kabylia in the same way that the French language disappeared from Algeria in the 1990s. These parallel disappearances could be said to evoke, in the case of the former, the murders of many Francophone intellectuals during the violence of the decennie noire, and in the case of the latter, strict Algerian Arabization laws that sought to replace French with Arabic in classrooms, in the media, and in official government business. However, this deceptive parallel yields an oversimplified interpretation, both of the novel's complexity and of the historical and linguistic situation in Algeria. Berkane does not necessarily represent the French language, nor is the French language precisely (or exclusively) what is disappearing in Djebar's Algeria. La Disparition begins with Berkane, a budding author, preparing to return to Algeria for the first time after over twenty years as a self-described exile in Paris. His fateful return takes place in 1990, mere months before the electoral victory of the Front Islamique du Salut would set off the decade of violence commonly referred to as the decennie noire. The narrative composition used to recount this return is structurally complex. Berkane's initial bittersweet homecoming is described, in a premiere partie, by two narrators who alternate in numbered subsections: Berkane and an unidentified narrator who uses the third person to refer to the protagonist. In this portion of the narrative, readers learn that Berkane has left behind a French lover, Marise, in Paris, but upon his return to Algiers he develops a relationship with Nadjia, an Algerian woman. A deuxieme partie exclusively uses Berkane's first-person narration and excerpts from his autobiographical writings to recount aspects of his childhood that seemed to have been buried during his time in Paris: his years in a French colonial school, his resistance to colonialism, and his subsequent time in a French prison as an adolescent. Yet the joy of his return is mixed with nostalgia for an Algeria that seems to be disappearing before his eyes, metonymized through the Casbah and its state of increasing physical disrepair. The novel ends with a troisieme partie, in which Berkane vanishes after embarking on a quest to relocate the centers in Kabylia where he was detained by French troops, an experience he planned to include in the autobiography he was writing. This closing section of (exclusively third-person) narration follows the reaction of three of those closest to Berkane: his journalist brother Driss, Marise, and Nadjia. Berkane's disappearance, however, remains unsolved. Not only do readers not know whether he has run away, been killed, or been kidnapped, they are also left in suspense as to the meaning of this disappearance. Who, or what, has really disappeared? Despite the novel's title, the putative of French is not extensively discussed in the text. One possible referent of this could be Algeria's Arabization legislation. After decades of French domination of the education system and suppression of the Arabic language, Algeria constitutionalized Arabic as its national language and declared that it would become the sole official language of education. However, the difficulty of implementing necessary educational reforms meant that after independence many Algerians were still educated in French. While French flourished in practice, in theory politicians described the disappearance of French from the Algerian curriculum as an ultimate goal that had yet to be achieved. Ahmed Taleb-Ibrahimi, education minister from 1965 to 1970, stated that Arabization would aneantir ce melange d'elements de cultures disparates, et souvent contradictoires, heritees des epoques de decadence et de la periode coloniale, de lui substituer une culture nationale unifiee, liee intimement a notre passe et a notre civilisation arabo-islamique (63). …

Study of electrical resistivity: variability assessment on two concretes: protocol study in laboratory and assessment on site

This article presents electrical resistivity measurement on concrete. The first part presents the study of a lighter protocol for measuring electrical resistivity, allowing investigations of a large number of specimens, without degradation of the quality of final results. The second part is based on measurements made on two concretes cast regularly during one year each, on two sites. Measurements done to assess the different variability sources distinguish variability linked to the measurement of those related to the material. The third part of the article compares the laboratory measurements to those made on site. Finally, all the results reflected the interests of the resistivity measurement because of low variability obtained, and consistency between results. Les travaux présentés portent sur la mesure de résistivité électrique sur les bétons. Une première partie présente l’étude d’un protocole de mesure électrique allégé, qui a permis de traiter un grand nombre d’éprouvette sans que la qualité finale des résultats n’en soit altérée. La seconde partie repose sur les mesures faites sur deux bétons coulés régulièrement sur deux chantiers durant une année. Les mesures réalisées permettent d’évaluer les différentes sources de variabilité des résistivités en distinguant les variabilités inhérentes à la mesure de celles liées au matériau. Une troisième partie de l’article confronte les mesures en laboratoires à celles réalisées sur site. L’ensemble des résultats traduit finalement l’intérêt de la mesure de résistivité du fait des faibles niveaux de variabilités obtenus, et de leur cohérence entre les différents résultats.

Between Theory and Post-Theory; or, Slavoj Žižek in Film Studies and Out

Par une lecture minutieuse de son livre, The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski Between Theory and Post-Theory (2001), cet article défend la pertinence des travaux de Slavoj Žižek pour les études cinématographiques. Dans ce livre, Žižek, répond aux critiques adressées à la théorie du cinéma, particulièrement celles qu’on retrouve dans l’ouvrage dirigé par David Bordwell et Noël Carroll, Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (1996). En procédant de cette façon, Žižek contribue de façon significative à la théorie du cinéma en identifiant les erreurs des premières théories psychanalytiques du cinéma et en les corrigeant de façon à insister davantage sur les questions d’idéologie ou d’identité. La première partie de cet article montre comment une interprétation psychanalytique du cinéma peut ajouter à la théorie de l’idéologie et de la subjectivité alors que la seconde partie se concentre sur l’interprétation que Žižek fait des films de Kieslowsky qui sert de moyens pour défendre la Théorie (avec un T) contre la post-théorie. Pour Žižek, la scission des études cinématographiques est le symptôme d’une lutte des classes au sein même du discours intellectuel à propos de la question de l’idéologie.

The Outcry of The Crow: Localizing Modernity in Iran

Cet article fait l’étude de la question de la modernité et de l’identité telle que représentée dans le cinéma de Bahram Bayzai et porte une attention particulière au film Kalagh (1977). Dans la première partie, la discussion cherche à montrer la signification du concept de modernité dans l’esthétique de Bayzai, et tout spécialement dans Kalagh, qui aborde explicitement la question. Le film a été réalisé pendant les bouleversements révolutionnaires en Iran, au moment où les Iraniens considéraient sérieusement le remplacement de la modernisation occidentale du Shah par une modernité reposant sur une culture et une histoire propres à l’Iran. Cet article montre comment l’attention particulière que ce film porte à l’individu-sujet plutôt qu’à la société, élément caractéristique de la transformation sociale et culturelle, est essentiellement moderne. La troisième partie de l’article défend l’idée que la façon dont est représentée la femme, qui dans le film est en quête d’identité, est une allusion à la crise d’identité iranienne plus générale qui a marqué la révolution et est aussi une façon de contester le projet de modernisation imposé par l’état. L’article met l’accent sur le regard personnel créé par l’emploi d’une approche théâtrale et par le motif dramatique crée par le montage et l’emploi du champ-contrechamp.

Eux autres versus nous autres: adolescent students’ views on the integration of newcomers

Focus group interviews with secondary school students in Quebec reveal assimilationist discourses concerning the integration of newcomers. The first part of the study involved interviews with immigrant students. In the second part of the study, reported here, host society youth describe fears of losing their cultural identity. Interview data indicate influences of exclusionist discourses from the media and society at large in an era of cultural protectionism in Quebec, a society struggling with the delicate balance between increasing cultural diversity and protecting French language and culture. This study indicates a need to implement intercultural education and promote intercultural communication to bring together the two separate worlds of immigrant and host society adolescents. Des entrevues de type groupe de discussion avec des élèves du secondaire au Québec mettent en évidence des discours assimilationnistes concernant l’intégration des élèves néo‐canadiens. La première partie de l’étude est constituée d’entrevues réalisées auprès d’élèves immigrants. Le présent article constitue la seconde partie de l’étude où les jeunes de la société d’accueil décrivent leurs peurs de perdre leur identité culturelle. Les données indiquent l’influence des discours exclusionnistes de la société et des médias dans une époque d’équilibre fragile entre l’augmentation de la diversité culturelle et la protection de la langue et de la culture distincte au Québec. Cette étude démontre le besoin d’implanter l’éducation interculturelle et de promouvoir la communication interculturelle.

From “Everything Has a Meaning” to “I Want to Believe in Something”: Religious Change Between Two Generations of Women in Norway

English The author analyzes change in religious culture between two generations of Norwegian women. The first part consists of a brief overview of the major findings from the survey, ISSP Norway Religion 98, regarding gender and religion. The second part consists of an in-depth analysis of the life-stories of two women, one born in 1933 and the other in 1980. The narratives demonstrate a shift in orientation from organized religion to individual spirituality, from belief in a personal God to a higher power, from others to self, and from continuity and tradition to fragmentation and plurality. The changes in religious orientations are related to different historical contexts, level of modernization, altered gender roles, and difference in cultural values. French L'auteure analyse le changement dans la culture religieuse entre deux générations de femmes norvégiennes. La première partie esquisse les principaux résultats de l'étude, ISSP Norway Religion 98, concernant le genre et la religion tandis que la deuxième développe une analyse approfondie à partir de l'histoire de vie de deux femmes, l'une née en 1933 et l'autre en 1980. Les narrations montrent un net changement d'orientation: de la religion organisée vers une spiritualité individuelle, de la croyance en un Dieu personnel vers celle en un pouvoir supérieur, des autres vers soi, ainsi que de la continuité et de la tradition vers la fragmentation et la pluralité. Les changements d'orientations religieuses sont resitués dans les différents contextes historiques et analysés en fonction des degrés de modernisation, de la modification des rôles de genre et des différences de valeurs culturelles.

Œuvres complètes , Vol. I: Eûmes en rime, première partie: Neuf Livres des Poemes by Jean-Antoine de Baïf (review)

MLRy 99.1, 2004 191 in Renaissance tragedy, arguing that the depiction of the misfortunes of the great had a dual role, both specular and oracular, whereby imitation of the past was also prophecy ofthe future; Laurence Giavarini contributes a complex discussion of mimesis in the dramatic pastoral between 1607 and 1635; Helene Visentin shows how the pre? sentation of supernatural figures in prologues testifies to an aesthetic shift between the period of Jodelle and the 1630s, during which verbal evocations painting a vivid picture (ie spectacle du discours') gave way to stage spectacle achieved by the use of machinery; finally,in the volume's most substantial piece, Guy Spielmann addresses theoretical questions concerning the dichotomy between 'theatre' and 'spectacle', the latter exemplified here by the plethora of minor genres and 'irregular' productions which flourished in the last third of the seventeenth century. Spielmann argues that, whereas literary theatre is characterized by a narrative structure, a differentsystem of patterning, 'une syntaxe fondamentale spectaculaire' or 'syntaxe de l'effet', informs the dramatic output which has been marginalized by critics. The contributions by Spielmann and Visentin go some way towards justifying the title of this volume (which, given the name of the series, presumably derives from an academic confer? ence, but we are not told which). Overall, these essays, like Aristotle's Poetics, are as much concerned with Speech as with Spectacle. No matter. Though varied in length and approach, they are well informed and stimulating, and will be read with profitby specialists of early French theatre. University of Liverpool Alan Howe (Euvres completes, Vol. i: Euvres en rime,premiere partie: Neuf Livres des Poemes. By Jean-Antoine de Baif. Ed. by Jean Vignes, Guy Demerson, Perrine GalandHallyn , Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, and Daniel Menager. (Textes de la Renaissance, 54) Paris: Champion. 2002. 1009 pp. ?75. ISBN 2-7453-0683-9. This represents the firstfruitsof the labours of a team of scholars working under the direction of Jean Vignes on an ambitious undertaking, the long-awaited nine-volume critical edition of Baif's complete surviving works, some hitherto unpublished. The Neuf Livres des Poemes were published in 1573 as volume 1 of the four-part Euvres en rime,since when the only edition has been that of Charles Marty-Laveaux (vol. 11 of Euvres en rime, 5 vols (Paris: Lemerre, 1881-90; repr. Geneva: Slatkine. 1966)), which has minimal annotation. After briefly outlining the principles governing the present project, Vignes chronicles Baif's life in relation to his work. There follow an introduction to the Euvres en rimeand one to the Poemes themselves, the formerlargely devoted to the organization of the collection, the latter dealing with structure within the Poemes, as well as chronology, the varied genres included, Bai'f's techniques of adapting his sources, and, most interestingly,his view of the Orphic role of the poet. A brief account is given ofthe versification and strophic forms; however, an evaluation of the poetic qualities would have been a welcome addition. The text is based on the 1573 publication, retaining the original spelling, but variant readings are given in the case of poems that had been previously published. One significant change has been made: the dedication to Charles IX ('Au Roy') has been incorporated into the firstbook of the Poemes, 'par souci de simplicite' (p. 529), despite the fact that in the original edition it is clearly separated from the Poemes and in fact functions as a preface to the Euvres en rime as a whole. This solution seems to me unsatisfactory as it obscures the status of the poem. That said, the critical apparatus is thorough and erudite. The individual books of the collection have been assigned to differenteditors, which leads to some unevenness in the style of annotation. For Book I, Guy Demerson, we are told (p. 13), 'a accepte de remanier son edition du Premier Livre des Poemes (Presses 192 Reviews Universitaires de Grenoble, 1975)'. This has involved replacing the orthography ofthe version of 'Le Premier des Meteores' printed in 1567 by that of 1573, but otherwise, apart from the mention of a certain number of more recent critical works, there has been little revision. The notes to this...

What Do We Know about Social Cohesion: The Research Perspective of the Federal Government's Social Cohesion Research Network

Abstract: This paper reports on recent research in the Federal Government on social cohesion. Social cohesion is defined as the willingness of members of a society to cooperate with each other in order to survive and prosper. Willingness to cooperate means they freely choose to form partnerships and have a reasonable chance of realizing goals, because others are willing to cooperate and share the fruits of their endeavours equitably. Social cohesion contributes to a wide variety of social outcomes such as health and economic prosperity. Part I of the paper relates how Federal Government researchers came to be interested in social cohesion. Part II discusses the concept of social cohesion. Part III presents a model of society to demonstrate how social cohesion works. Part IV concludes by discussing the policy significance of the model. Resume: Cette communication rende compte de la recherche recente du gouvernement federal au sujet de la cohesion sociale. Par la cohesion sociale, on comprend la volonte des membres de la societe a cooperer 1'un avec l'autre dans le but de survivre et prosperer. La volonte de cooperer veut dire qu'ils choissisent librement de s,associer et qu'ils ont une bonne chance de realiser leurs objectifs, puisque les autres sont egalement bien disposes a cooperer et a partager equitablement les resultats de leurs efforts. La cohesion sociale contribue a divers resultats sociaux, telles que la sante et la prosperite economique. La premiere partie de la communication raconte comment le gouvernement federal s'est interesse a la cohesion sociale. La deuxieme partie explore le concept de la cohesion sociale. Partie trois presente un modele de la societie qui demontre comment fonctionne Ia cohesion sociale. Comme conclusion, partie quatre parle des implications du modele pour la politique. Introduction This paper reports on recent research in the Federal Government on the subject of social cohesion. Part I relates how the research community in the Federal Government came to be interested in social cohesion. Part II discusses what is meant by the concept social cohesion. Part III describes what the research community has learned about social cohesion and how it has used that knowledge to elaborate a model of how social cohesion works. Part IV concludes by discussing the policy significance of the model and how further research within and outside government can contribute. Although there has, since the events of September 11, 2001, been an upsurge in policy interest in social cohesion in the Federal Government, this article will not discuss those policy considerations. The considerations are still in their very preliminary stages. It is premature to try to form a scholarly perspective on any policies which may arise from them, and it is in any case beyond the competence of the author to discuss policy issues. The article will therefore confine itself to the research activities of the Federal Government's Social Cohesion Research Network. Part I: How the Federal Government Research Community Became Interested in Social Cohesion Social Cohesion first became a subject of interest to the Federal Government in 1996, after the then Clerk of the Privy Council, Jocelyne Bourgon, realized that the capacity of the government to do policy research had seriously eroded, and was, in some areas, practically non-existent (PCO, 1995). In order to begin to rebuild research capacity, the Clerk asked government departments to identify critical policy issues which would arise over the next decade, and to begin to explore them. She specified that the issues identified should not be constrained by traditional departmental mandates. Research was to lead policy development and not merely follow and rationalize it, and research was to reach beyond traditional departmental boundaries and concerns so as to be able to study issues integrally and challenge existing departmental policy perspectives. …

OPTIMIZATION OF GUAVA JUICE AND POWDER PRODUCTION

Enzyme treatment of guava puree was optimized for yield and clarity by first determining the most effective concentration, then varying both incubation time and temperature. Application of Pectinex Ultra SP-L® was optimal using 700 ppm enzyme for 1.5 h at 50C. Clarified guava juice was clearer (89.6%) when prepared using ultrafiltration (MW cut-off 40-60 kDa) rather than plate and frame filtration (82.8%); however, the latter was higher in both soluble solids and ascorbic acid. Clarified guava juice powders were made using freeze-drying, spray drying and tunnel drying. The freeze-dried product had superior quality; however, the spray-dried product was stable and may be more economical. Sensory panelists ranked the cloudy juice prepared from aseptic guava puree highest, and there were no significant differences between the juices from pasteurized, clear nectar, freeze-dried puree powder or juice powder. Cette etude optimise, dans une premiere partie, le traitement enzymatique (concentration, temps, temperature) pour obtenir un jus de goyave trouble avec un rendement maximum, retenir l'acide ascorbique et maitriser les couts. Elle evalue ensuite l'ultrafiltration et la filtration a plateaux sur le flux, la turbidite, la retention en acide ascorbique et la teneur en solides solubles du jus clarifie. Elle prepare, enfin, des poudres de goyave des methodes de lyophilisation, sechage en aspersion ou en tunnel et evalue les effets de la deshydratation sur les proprietes physicochimiques.

VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY: HUGH SAY ALIAS JOHN DAY THE MEN OF BRISTOL AND JOAO FERNANDES

In the first part of the paper the author explains to the readers the story of the so-called John Day's letter, and informs them about a very valuable contribution to the history of discoveries by Dr. A. Ruddock, who, after prolonged research identified the mysterious John Day as an important English merchant, Hugh Say. In the second part, the author discusses the hypotheses of Dr. Ruddock concerning the achievement of the "men of Bristol" and the landfall of John Cabot, and presents his own views on these problems. The third part of the paper supports the hypothesis that the man who, in the auhor's opinion, visited the Canadian shores in about 1494 was the same person who later was the pilot of John Cabot's ship in 1497, and who is popularly known as "the Lavrador"—namely Joao Fernandes, Portuguese merchant and sailor of Terceira Island, Azores. Dans la première partie du mémoire, l'auteur explique l'origine de la fameuse lettre attribuée à un certain John Day, et fait ressortir la précieuse contribution apportée à l'histoire des découvertes par M. A. Ruddock qui, après des recherches prolongées, a identifié le mystérieux John Day comme étant un important marchand anglais du nom de Hugh Say. La deuxième partie du mémoire examine les hypothèses de M. Ruddock au sujet de l'exploit des "hommes de Bristol" et de la découverte de Jean Cabot, et donne l'opinion de l'auteur à ce sujet. La troisième partie corrobore l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'homme qui, de l'avis de l'auteur, a visité les rives du Canada vers 1494 était celui-là même qui pilota le navire de Jean Cabot en 1497, et qui est généralement connu sous le nom de "Lavrador", notamment Joao Fernandes, marchand et navigateur portugais de l'île Terceira, dans les Açores.

Lecons de toxicologie

THIS series of books, of which seven out of the proposed twelve volumes are reviewed here, forms a precis of lectures on toxicology delivered to the Pharmaceutical Faculty in Paris. The lectures are given to students of pharmacy and industrial hygiene as well as to research workers. Such an audience would no doubt have somewhat different points of view, and the lectures certainly attempt, with notable success, to cover their diverse requirements. It is appreciated that the author must have been in some difficulty to decide what to include and omit, and how extensively to cover each section and topic discussed. Lecons de toxicologie Par Prof. Rene Fabre, avec la collaboration de Mlle. M. T. Regnier et P. Cheramy. 1: Introduction a l'etude de la toxicologie; generalites sur les poisons. Nouvelle edition. Pp: 166. 50 francs. 2: Toxicologie des gaz, Premiere partie. Pp. 128. 45 francs. 3: Toxicologie des gaz, Deuxieme partie. Pp. 148. n.p. 4: Alcools, anesthesiques, solvants. Pp. 150. 80 francs. 5: Acide cyanhydrique, derives aromatiques. Pp. 88. 70 francs. 6: Poisons organiques divers. Pp. 116. 85 francs. 7: Alcaloiides, Premiere partie. Pp. 110. 85 francs. (Actualites scientifiques et industrielles, 935, 953, 956, 961, 963, 964, 965.) (Paris: Hermann et Cie., 1943.)

A Biologist as Ethnologist

RENAISSANCE of interest and pride in their colonial possessions are outstanding and most satisfactory features among the French of to-day. Prior to the War few Frenchmen went abroad, apart from Algeria, as colonists and planters, and, with some brilliant exceptions, the officials sent overseas were men of inferior quality, of whom their political party or their departmental chiefs were anxious to be quit. Their salaries were often mere pittances, and their numbers, judged by the British standard, out of all proportion to real requirements; the sum total of their salaries was frequently excessive as compared with the revenue of their particular colony and a distinct impediment to development and progress. Bureaucracy strangled enterprise even among their own countrymen, and French colonial administration was a synonym for inefficiency and red-tape. L'Industrie des peches au Cameroun. Par Dr. Theodore Monod. (Commissariat de la Republique Francaise au Cameroun, Mission Monod (1925–1926): Premiere partie, Generalites.) Pp. 509 + 25 planches. (Paris: Societe d'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1928.) 90 francs.

L'Industrie chimique des bois: leurs dérivés et extraits industriels

Two distinct aspects of the technical chemistry of wood are dealt with in this book, namely, the working up of the volatile products from the thermal decomposition of wood and the preparation of tannin and other extracts from various classes of cellulosic materials. Unlike the majority of books of this nature, the authors have intentionally restricted theoretical descriptions and classification and have, so far as possible, concentrated on technical points and works' processes. In this way the maximum amount of information useful to the manufacturer has been secured, and general organic text-books can be consulted for the more theoretical underlying principles. L'Industrie chimique des bois: leurs derives et extraits industriels. Par P. Dumesny J. Noyer. Premiere partie: La distillation du bois; Deuxieme partie: Fabrication d'extraits divers. Deuxieme edition refondue et considerablement augmentee. Pp. vi + 432. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie; n.d.) 50 francs.

La Statique des Fluides, la Liquéfaction des Gaz, et l'Industrie du Froid

first part of this book deals with the properties of liquids and gases, giving a very clear summary of some of the more important experimental work carried out in this branch of physico-chemical research. Amagat's work and conclusions are recorded in considerable detail, as well as much of the work of other physicists. The researches carried out by the great French physicist are of such importance that readers will be glad to have this connected account of them. La Statique des Fluides, la Liquefaction des Gaz, et l'Industrie du Froid. By E.-H. Amagat L. Decombe. Premiere Partie: Statique des Fluides Purs. By E.-H. Amagat and L. Decombe. Deuxieme Partie: La Probleme de la Liquefaction des Gazr l'Industrie du Froid. By L. Decombe. Pp. vi + 265. (Paris and Liege: C. Beranger, 1917,) Price 18 francs.

Traité de Palæontologie Végétale

THE first part of the second volume of this very important work (the first volume of which was reviewed in the first number of NATURE) has just appeared, with a quarto atlas of twenty-five plates; and it maintains the high character with which it commenced. In this part the systematic description of the families, genera, and species, is carried down from Lycopodiaceœ to the end of Monocotyledons; and the same excellent plan is carried out, of giving under each principal group its most important botanical characters and geographical distribution, drawn from living types; thus supplementing the excessively meagre descriptions that the fossils afford, enabling the reader rightly to appreciate the strength or weakness of the evidence on which the alliances of the fossils are founded, and indicating the organs or structural points most desiderated, and to obtain which collectors should search for illustrative specimens. Traite de Palaeontologie Vegetale. Par W. Ph. Schimper. Tome ii. Premiere Partie, pp. 522. (Paris, 1870.)

An account of two books. - I. Cours d' architecture, enseignè dans l' academie royale d' architecture, premiere partie; par M. Francois Blondel, de l' academiœ royale des sciences, &c à Paris, 1675. in fol. II. Remarks upon two late ingenious treatises; the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies; the other, observations touching the torricellian

An account of two books. - I. Cours d' architecture, enseignè dans l' academie royale d' architecture, premiere partie; par M. Francois Blondel, de l' academiœ royale des sciences, &c à Paris, 1675. in fol. II. Remarks upon two late ingenious treatises; the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies; the other, observations touching the torricellian experiment, so far forth as they may concern any passages in the enchiridium metaphysicum: By Dr. Henry More. Printed in London, for Walter Kettilby, 1676. in octavo. In this First Part of Architecture (which noble Art the Eminent Author will doubtless pursue and improve in all its parts,) are explained the Origin and Principles of it, and the Practique of the Five Orders, according to the doctrine of Vitruvius and his principal Followers, and the doctrine of the three most renowned Architects that have written amongst the Moderns, to wit, Vignole , Palladio , and Scamozzi .