There is no science without exchange. Representation and communication have both motivated and supported science throughout its history. From Mesopotamian tablets to virtual images, a history and...

The origins and history of chemistry. Was Newton an alchemist? The birth of scientific chemistry in the works of Lavoisier; Mendeleev and the table of the elements.

Ancient Greece. The "Greek miracle." The development of the sciences of geometry, astronomy, and physics: Thales, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Eratosthenes.

From the origins to the present day. Galileo, Kepler, Newton. From the geocentric hypothesis to the infinite universe. The human vision of the cosmos: around the world, around the sky.

Theories about the nature of life and its reproduction—the beginning of the mastery of biological principles in agriculture—Pasteur and Mendel: the shift from agriculture to science.

The speed and intimacy of drawing make it the primary means of expressing artistic thought. This documentary studies a wide range of drawings (by Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso…) in which such thought is...

Art historian Hubert Damisch curated an exhibition at the Louvre entitled "Traité du trait" which ran from April 24 to July 28, 1995 and featured drawings by Chinese artists (Zheng Xie, Zhu Da, Wen...

An exceptional event was held at the Grand Palais in the fall of 1994: a major retrospective of the work of painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the...