Académie de marine, 70, 86–87

Académie des sciences, 7, 11, 29, 31–32, 51, 89, 92n6, 95, 99, 101, 104, 109, 113, 117–118, 122n8, 130, 156, 162, 168, 298

Académie des sciences morales et politiques, 11, 16, 168, 205, 243, 290–291

Agnesi, Maria, 126, 138n2

Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 195

Ampère, André-Marie, 29

Andersonian Institution, 136, 146–148, 160n5, 177, 238

Andrieux, François-Guillaume-J-S., 26, 43n2

Annales maritimes et coloniales, 92n7, 124–126

Arago, François, 28, 31, 165, 193, 197, 199, 240, 263

Argout, Antoine, 263, 282n1

Arkwright, Richard, 195

Association polytechnique, 183, 240

Augoyat, Antoine-Marie, 24, 56, 69–71, 156, 224

Babaud de la Chaussade, Pierre, 95

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain, 48

Bajot, Louis-Marie, 88, 91, 92n7, 119–120, 123–127

Banks, Joseph, Sir, 106–107, 158

Barlow, Peter, 132, 141–142

Bastiat, Frédéric, 242

Bellerophon, 101, 143–144

Bentham, Jeremy, 232, 234–235

Bergery, Claude-Lucien, 182, 200, 239

Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 25, 30

Bertrand, Joseph-Louis François, 11, 290

Billiet, M. aîné, 229, 231, 233

Birkbeck, George, 147, 160n5, 238

Blanqui, Adolphe, 235, 238, 244, 289

Blomfield, Charles James, 72

Bonaparte, Napoléon (Napoleon 1), xiv, 15, 21, 24–25, 29–31, 45–47, 49–50, 56, 59–61, 67–68, 71, 82, 85, 87, 96, 101, 104–105, 110, 114, 144, 159, 166, 168, 171, 254, 280, 288

Borda, Jean-Charles de, 47

Bosc d’Antic, 95

Bougon, Abbé, 6, 14, 20

Bouguer, Pierre, 86

Brande, William Thomas, 124n2

Brinkley, John, 30

Brisson, Barnabé, 32

Brougham, Henry, Lord, 238, 246n2

Bruce, Michael, 105

Byron Lovelace, Ada, 126, 138n5

caisses d’épargne (savings banks), 202, 255, 265, 272–278, 291

Capo d’Istria, Giovanni, 71–72, 75n7

Carandinos, Jean, 72

Carnot, Lazare, 21, 29, 31, 33, 40–41, 63, 78, 81, 86–87, 93, 190–191, 228, 240, 297