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THE council for the improvement of the course of study at the Polytechnic School has for some time had under consideration a revision of the Programme d'Instruction of the two years' course, and at different times, for instance in 1865, steps have been taken with a view to their improvement, but, according to this pamphlet, different circumstances, especially in 1870, have deferred the realisation of such schemes. Upon such a wide subject our author does not venture, but he confines himself merely to that part which relates to the Cours de Machines. We are indebted for this very interesting and full historical sketch of the matter from the very foundation of the school to the veteran geometer, M. Chasles.
Expose Historique concernant le Cours des Machines, dans l'Enseignement de l'École Polytechnique.
23 pp. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1880.)
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Expose Historique concernant le Cours des Machines, dans l'Enseignement de l'École Polytechnique . Nature 23, 75 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023075b0
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