Pierre Duhem

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Bordoni 2017 p. 290n14:

Humbert was a Catholic mathematician who spent most of his career at Montpellier, and did some researches on the history of science. He dared to overturn the received view on Duhem as a right-winger, and claimed that he had been a democrat. See Ibidem , p. 126, footnote 1: “ses préférences secrètes le poussaient du côté des démocrates, chez qui il comptait beaucoup d’amis.” He also reported Duhem’s talk in favour of university training for girls [Ibidem , pp. 133-4]. He could rely on some information received from his father, the mathematician George Humbert, who had personally known Duhem since his youth [Stoffel 2007, p. 283].