Article ID: CBB000931359

Le problème des longitudes en mer dans les traités d'hydrographie des Jésuites aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Choix méthodologiques et pratiques instrumentales (2006)

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Lamy, Jérôme (Author)


Histoire & Mesure
Volume: 21, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 95-120


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Mesurer le Ciel et la Terre”
Language: French

The determination of longitude at sea was a major scientific question during the modern times. This article focuses on how the Jesuits taught that topic in their treatises of hydrography in the 17th and 18th centuries. The analysis of these works reveals the methods they recommended and their instrumental choices. The originality of the Jesuits' treatises was based on an acute attention to the most recent developments in astronomy, a permanent tension between practice and precision, and the promotion of the magnet's variation as a method.

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Authors & Contributors
Boistel, Guy
Morfouli, Meropi
Ian M. Davis
Baack, Lawrence J.
Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von
Thébaud-Sorger, Marie
Concepts
Measurement
Longitude and latitude
Measuring instruments
Exactness; precision; accuracy
Astronomy
Instruments, navigational
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
France
Europe
Greenwich (England)
Nile River
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Delft (Netherlands)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Royal Society of London
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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