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
Heffernan, Michael
Kershaw, Michael
Olson, Kory
Ramon Grau
Šolar, Renata
Spallek, Waldemar
Journals
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
British Journal for the History of Science
New Books Network Podcast
Polski Przegląd Kartograficzny (Polish Cartographical Review)
History of Geo- and Space Sciences
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Publishers
Ajuntament de Barcelona
Husum Druck
Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino
Zalozba ZRC and the Karst Research Institute
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press
Praeger Publishers
Concepts
Geography
Cartography
Longitude and latitude
Maps; atlases
Navigation
Controversies and disputes
People
Ptolemy, Claudius
Yersin, Alexandre Émile John
Simond, Paul Louis
Redi, Francesco
Pliny the Elder
Marinus of Alexandria
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Places
Paris (France)
France
Greenwich (England)
Germany
Baltic Sea
Canary Islands
Institutions
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Académie des Sciences, Paris
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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