Arkan Simaan

Arkan Simaan , born with the Lebanon in 1945, is a Historien of sciences of French language, although its formation is Brazilian. He emigrates with his family towards the Brésil at the two years age and is established with Anápolis, close to Brasilia.

In 1964, a military coup d'etat reverses the government of João Goulart, whereas it has just begun studies of physics to the Université of São Paulo. It engages in the movement trotskist. Continued by the police force and condemned to the prison, it enters clandestinity. Its name appears in several lawsuits, in particular in the IPM (Inquérito policial-militar, i.e. Enquête politico-soldier ) of the CRUSP (Conjunto Residencial da Universidade de São Paulo). By this instruction, the military government wants to make 46 students responsible for all agitation. Obliged to flee the country, Arkan Simaan arrives at Paris in 1970, where it gives up later a few years the political activity.

It resumes its studies of physics to the Université Paris VII, then of engineer at the Institute of higher learning of materials and the mechanical engineering.

After a short passage by industry, it decides to be devoted to teaching and obtains the aggregation of physics.

Works

Arkan Simaan is novelist and author of biographies and books of history of the ideas, of which some were preceded:
  • the Image of the world of the Babylonians with Newton (with Joelle Fountain), Adapt editions, 1998.
  • “This sentence frightens you more than with myself: Giordano Bruno”, rationalist Books , February 2000. Biography of Giordano Bruno at the time of the fourth centenary of its torment.
  • science with the danger of its life. Adventurers of the measurement of the world , co-edition Vuibert and Adapt editions, October 2001. “Special price of the book of astronomy” in 2002.
  • Venus in front of the Sun. To include/understand and observe an astronomical phenomenon , co-edition Vuibert and Adapt editions, 2003. Also took part in the drafting of this book devoted to the Venus passage in front of the Sun (June 8th, 2004): Jacques Blamont, Guillaume Cannat, Yves Water, Michel Laudon, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Steven Mr. Van Roode and David Sellers.
  • the Image of the world of Newton in Einstein , co-edition Vuibert and Adapt editions, 2005.
  • “the paradox of science: Fritz Haber”, rationalist Books 579, November-December 2005.
  • the Rider of Henri the Navigator , Editions Harmattan, 2007, historical novel based on medieval chronicles.

Articles on line

  • On the experiment of Eratosthène, This article written for the Bulletin of the Union of the Physicists doubts the measuring accuracy of Eratosthène.

  • History of sciences, a teaching experiment in Second This article shows the interest of the use of the history of the metric system in secondary education.
  • “Fritz Haber, chemist with double face”, Science and pseudo-sciences , 269, October 2005.
  • “The transit off Come across the Sun”, Physics Education.
  • “The transit off Come: stroke off luck for teachers”, School Science Review has.
  • “History with the service of science”, the News of Archimedes, University of sciences and technology of Lille.

External bonds

  • Futura-sciences
  • Adapt Editions
  • Adventurers of the Measurement of the World, video conference of Arkan Simaan to the Planetarium of Vellum Vaulx. Duration 44 min.

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