Archibald Higgins

Archibald Higgins is a character in a cartoon created by the French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit , originally published in Belin. Curious and candid, his adventures are a pretext for the popularization of science in fields ranging from physics to computer science, helped by the lovely Sophie, who guides him in his efforts while leaving the search, and Tiresias, the snail blundering.

List of books

Belin has published fourteen albums, four others are rejected by Belin published by Presence.

In the 1980s , the series has been marketed in several languages:

• in English : The Adventures of Archibald Higgins.
• in German : Die Abenteuer Wtegern of Anselm.
• in Finnish : Anselmi Veikkonen seikkailee.

Archibald Higgins is now distributed free on the website of the association Know Without Borders has set a goal, among others, to translate these albums in as many languages as possible. In November 2008, 246 albums ^{The Adventures of Archibald Higgins}

1. The gometricon, Belin, Paris, 1980 ( ISBN 2-7011-0372-X ): geometry of curved spaces
2. If you flew?, Belin, Paris, 1980 ( ISBN 2-7011-0368-1 ), renamed by the author's aspirisouffle: fluid mechanics subsonic
3. The INFORMAG, Belin, Paris, 1980 ( ISBN 2-7011-0376-2 ): Computer
4. The black hole, Belin, Paris, 1981 ( ISBN 2-7011-0389-4 ): general relativity
5. Everything is relative, Belin, Paris, 1981 ( ISBN 2-7011-0388-6 ): Relativity
6. Big Bang, Belin, Paris, 1982 ( ISBN 2-7011-0390-8 ): genesis of the Universe
7. What do robots dream?, Belin, Paris, 1982 ( ISBN 2-7011-0456-4 ): Robotics
8. The wall of silence, Belin, Paris, 1983 ( ISBN 2-7011-0467-X ): magnetohydrodynamics
9. She runs, she runs, inflation, Belin, Paris, 1983 ( ISBN 2-7011-0485-8 ) renamed by the author's conomicon: economy
10. Energetically yours, Belin, Paris, 1984 ( ISBN 2-7011-0494-7 ): Nuclear
11. Cosmic Story, Belin, Paris, 1985 ( ISBN 2-7011-0489-0 ): history of ideas in cosmology
12. The topologicon, Belin, Paris, 1985 ( ISBN 2-7011-0466-1 ): Topology
13. Trillion suns!, Belin, Paris, 1986 ( ISBN 2-7011-0469-6 ): astrophysics
14. For a few amps and more, Belin, Paris, 1989 ( ISBN 2-7011-1277-X ): electromagnetism

The New Adventures of Archibald Higgins

1. The Logotron, Presence, Sisteron, 1990 - ( ISBN 2-901696-52-X ): language (theory of Gdel)
2. Apocalypse Joyeuse, Presence, Sisteron, 1990 - ( ISBN 2-901696-53-8 ): Arms
3. The chronologicon, Presence, Sisteron, 1990 - ( ISBN 2-901696-54-6 ): Time in cosmology
4. Operation Hermes, Presence, Sisteron, 1990 - ( ISBN 2-901696-55-4 ) renamed by the author around the world in eighty minutes: Space Adventure
5. The spondyloscope, Belle Magazine Health, 2005: Anatomy

The Adventures of Archibald Higgins

1. Euclid rules OK?, John Murray, London, 1982 ( ISBN 071953983-8 ) (translation of gometricon by Ian Stewart)

   Here's looking at Euclid (and not looking at Euclid), W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1985 ( ISBN 086576092-6 ) (ditto)

2. Flight of Fancy, John Murray, London, 1982 ( ISBN 071953982-X ) (translation If you flying? "by Ian Stewart)

   Flight of Fancy, W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1985 ( ISBN 086576084-5 ) (ditto)

3. Informagic, John Murray, London, 1982 ( ISBN 071953981-1 ) (translation of L'INFORMAG by Ian Stewart)

   Computer magic, W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1985 ( ISBN 086576067-5 ) (translation of L'INFORMAG by Ian Stewart)

4. The black hole, W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1985 ( ISBN 086576069-1 ) (translation of the black hole by Ian Stewart)
5. Everything is relative, W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1985 ( ISBN 086576068-3 ) (Everything is relative translation by Ian Stewart)
6. Big Bang, W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1986 ( ISBN 086576070-5 ) (translation of Big Bang by Ian Stewart)
7. Run, robot, run, W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1985 ( ISBN 086576083-7 ) (translation of What robots dream? by Ian Stewart)
8. The silence barrier, W. Kaufmann, Los Altos, 1986 ( ISBN 086576096-9 ) (translation from the wall of silence by Ian Stewart)

External Links

• Website of the association "Knowledge without borders" founded by the author, which handles the translation and free distribution of his albums over the Internet.
• Download page to PDF albums.
• Lanturluland, former site of Jean-Pierre Petit dedicated to this series of comics
• Site of the comments on the errors and approximations of these comics: http://rominni.wordpress.com/

References

• Comics portal

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