Article ID: CBB508314855

Impatti cosmici e comunicazione del rischio. Il Mémoire sur les comètes di Jérôme Lalande e il dibattito francofono (2016)

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In 1773, Paris was shaken by the fear that soon a comet would have caused the end of the world: reason of the panic was the Mémoire sur les Comètes by Jérôme Lalande. In his essay, intended for a séance of the Académie, the astronomer analyzed the probability of collision between Earth and comets, although not announcing any catastrophe. The occurrence forced scientists and literary men to deal with two issues of particular urgency: the problem, on the one hand, of the possibility or impossibility of cosmic impacts, linked to the reflections about the Cosmos and the Divine Providence; on the other hand, the emergence of a debate on how to communicate probabilistic values to the public.

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Authors & Contributors
Ampollini, Ilaria
Le Lay, Colette
Thierry Belleguic
Lémonon-Waxin, Isabelle
Gruber, Doris
Weekenstroo, Florine
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Science and society
Popularization
Comets; meteors; meteorites
Electricity; magnetism
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
16th century
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Places
France
England
Europe
Great Britain
Netherlands
Germany
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Observatoire de Paris
Royal Society of London
Royal Observatory Greenwich
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