« L’Académie des sciences et des beaux-arts » : le testament graphique de Sébastien Leclerc
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The engraver Sébastien Leclerc is very representative of the long reign of Louis xiv, with whom he is an almost exact contemporary. Admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1672, he was also closely allied with the Royal Academy of Science (founded 1666) of which he was one of the preferred engravers. His entire life is divided between the sciences and arts, and he was not only a fine mathematician and physicist, but also collected instruments and experimental models. The print entitled The Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, dedicated to the king in 1698, appears to be Leclerc’s graphic testament. In it he exposes not only his faith in scientific progress as opposed to the quackish barbarism personified by the chiromancer of the first plane, and his admiration for the reign of the prince who authorized scientific renewal, but he also shows with a discreet pride – in scattering throughout his plate very clear and specific allusions for connoisseurs of his own past or present works issuing from royal commissions or else arising from his own initiatives – that he is not the last person to have participated in this noble enterprise. While knowing that Death, hidden in an anamorphosis, awaits him, he hopes that his genius will survive and that he will have earned the right to the eternal gratitude of the scholarly community. Thus, by this meticulous and subtle work, an artist whose recognized first qualities are exactitude and positive realism is inscribed in the ‘metaphysical’ tradition usually associated with the painters of Vanities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".