Seminar - History of construction "Constructive experimentation

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 –
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Paris Nanterre University, building F, room F352

The Center for Theory and Analysis of Law, the Archaeology and Philology of the East and West Laboratory, the Orient & Mediterranean, Texts, Archaeology, History Laboratory and the University of Lausanne are organizing a new edition of the History of Construction Seminar . The meeting on Tuesday, January 28 will have the theme "Constructive experimentation" .

François Fleury , researcher at the ATE laboratory, will present a presentation entitled “Experimentation of the flat vault with a single keystone proposed by Joseph Abeille (1699)”.

More information about the program HERE

visual: Joseph Abeille – Flat vault (1699), in Jean-Gaffin Gallion, “Machines and inventions approved by the Royal Academy of Sciences”, volume 1 (source: BnF Gallica)