Book ID: CBB001214469

Méridien, méridienne: textes, enjeux, débats et passions autour des méridiens de Paris et de Greenwich (1783--2000) (2013)

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McConnell, Anita (Author)
Martin, Jean-Pierre (Author)
Débarbat, Suzanne (Author)


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Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 165 pp; ill.
Language: French

Les auteurs nous racontent comment a été défini le méridien de Paris, une aventure faite d'expéditions, du Pérou en Laponie, de mesures et de débats. Ils en explorent toutes les conséquences : le dessin d'une carte de France scientifique, celle des Cassini ; l'élaboration du système métrique fondé sur la fraction du méridien terrestre. Ils exposent comment le méridien de Greenwich a été retenu lors de la conférence de Washington, en 1884, comme origine pour le calcul des longitudes et la détermination des heures.

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Review Murdin, Paul (2014) Review of "Méridien, méridienne: textes, enjeux, débats et passions autour des méridiens de Paris et de Greenwich (1783--2000)". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 248-248). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kershaw, Michael
Heffernan, Michael
Shcheglov, Dmitry A.
Martin, Jean-Pierre
Débarbat, Suzanne
Berger, Nora Ariel
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Cartographic Journal
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Cartographica Helvetica
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Publishers
Isoète
Praeger Publishers
Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino
Zalozba ZRC and the Karst Research Institute
Harper Collins
Ajuntament de Barcelona
Concepts
Geography
Cartography
Longitude and latitude
Maps; atlases
Navigation
Astronomy
People
Ptolemy, Claudius
Ptolemy
Delisle, Guillaume
Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Marinus of Alexandria
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century
21st century
Places
Paris (France)
France
Greenwich (England)
Spain
Portugal
Germany
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Royal Observatory Greenwich
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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