Sciences naturelles

Hardback, 1126 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503530666. By studying the vocabulary of the millers, millwrights and blacksmiths of the past who were active in northern France, the author preserves an immense lexical treasury, one that is especially important since the region has always been renowned for its production of oil and flour. This lexicon is an indispensable complement to traditional dictionaries, which have devoted little attention to technical vocabulary: more than twenty per cent of its definitions and words are new. It provides clear and precise definitions, examples that are as diverse and detailed as possible, and numerous illustrations, which will interest not only the specialist in mills but any researcher who, in working with archives, is confronted with technical texts.Through the varied entries in this dictionary, we see a new image of the mill, one that has evolved over the centuries and that commands our admiration. Here at last is a dictionary that gives a voice to manual workers over the centuries, it is they who have freed us from the heaviest of our labours and indirectly facilitated the blossoming of intellectual life. En etudiant le vocabulaire des meuniers, des charpentiers de moulins et des forgerons d'autrefois, qui furent actifs dans le nord de la France, l'auteur sauvegarde un immense tresor lexical d'autant plus important que la region a toujours ete renommee pour sa production de farine et d'huile. Ce lexique est un complement indispensable aux dictionnaires traditionnels qui ne s'interessent guere au vocabulaire technique : plus de vingt pour cent des definitions ou des mots sont nouveaux. Les definitions claires et precises, les exemples aussi diversifies et detailles que possible, ainsi que les nombreuses illustrations interesseront non seulement le specialiste des moulins, mais tout chercheur qui, dans les archives, se voit confronte a des textes techniques. A travers les differents articles de ce dictionnaire, c'est une nouvelle image du moulin qui emerge, une image qu'on voit evoluer au cours des siecles et qui force notre admiration. Voici enfin un dictionnaire qui donne la paro'e aux travailleurs manuels : au cours des siecles ils ont libere l'homme des travaux les plus lourds et indirectement facilite l'essor de l'esprit. Languages : French.