Les enjeux du discours sur la girafe au dix-huitième siècle, des naturalistes et Buffon à François le Vaillant
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p>In the eighteenth century, the illustrations of natural history treatises betray the complex evolution of the image of the giraffe, divergent, even contrary representations, of an animal which belongs as much to reality as to fantasy. We know it from texts whose contradictions only sharpen curiosity about this fabulous animal that no one had yet seen. The different editions of Buffon's Natural History attest to the author's relentlessness in resolving the difficult question of the animal's horns, but also show the itinerary of a knowledge that is still evolving. It is François Le Vaillant, explorer, naturalist, ornithologist, who has the honor of finally presenting the giraffe to the scholarly community. Conquest of knowledge for the glory of science, certainly, but also intimate possession through the death of the coveted object, his account of hunting offers an unprecedented glimpse of a conquest that turns out to be as literal as scientific, the seed of other conquests to come.</p>
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".