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Record W2025847088 · doi:10.7202/019752ar

La première iconographie du castor

2009· article· fr· W2025847088 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
François-Marc Gagnon

Bibliographic record

VenueScientia Canadensis Canadian Journal of the History of Science Technology and Medicine · 2009
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesArtCartographyGeography

Abstract

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La première iconographie du castor canadien suit des modèles européens quand il s’agit de reproduire les traits de la bête. Fidèle alors à la « doctrine des signatures », telle que définie par Michel Foucault, elle insiste soit sur la queue de l’animal qui étant recouverte d’écailles le classe parmi les « poissons » soit sur ce qu’on croyait être ses testicules et d’où on extrayait le castoreum. Cette iconographie est plus originale quand elle s’est mise en tête de représenter les cabanes et les digues de castors, ouvrages inconnus en Europe. Les barrages de castors ont beaucoup intrigué les vieux auteurs. On s’est souvent persuadé qu’ils étaient l'oeuvre d’une centaine d’individus. S’il en était ainsi, quelle sorte d’organisation devait-on leur supposer? Obéissaient-ils à un commandant? Tenaient-ils des assemblées? On aura reconnu un modèle tantôt monarchique, tantôt républicain. Question qui soulevait le redoutable problème du langage des animaux, comment communiquaient-ils entre eux? L’article explore les différentes réponses des illustrateurs de LaHontan ou de Nicolas de Fer, du Sieur LeBeau ou du père du Creux.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score0.239

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0050.007
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0290.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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