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- Title: probleme des longitudes en mer dans les traites d'hydrographie des Jesuites aux XXIIe et XVIII siecles [Le...]. Choix metodologiques et practiques ...
SubTitle: ... instrumentales. [In: Histoire et mesure 2006-2 (Vol.XXI) ISSN 0982-1783, page 95-120] - Abstract - Author: Jerome Lamy
- Publisher: Editions EHESS
Keywords: clock
Other Keywords: longitude
ISBN: ISSN 0982-1783
Language: ENG FRE
Notes: ENG/FRE Abstract of 25 p. Article in Histoire et mesure 2006-2 (Vol.XXI) ISSN 0982-1783, page 95-120: 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 - s a method. Plan de l'article ? 1. Panorama des m?thodes ? Un vain foisonnement ? ? La variation de l?aimant ? La persistance de l?estime ? 2. Techniques instrumentales ? L?astrolabe : un outil inadapt? ? Le rep?rage par l?arbalestrille, une technique pl?biscit?e ? Du quartier anglais, ou quartier de Davis, ? l?octant ? L?octant, ou l?introduction de l?optique ? Bibliographie
Edition: 2006-2 -- Copyright: 2006
Kind: Article
Type: Scientific instrument
Geographic area: France
Topic: History
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 1 -- Height in cm: 27
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 14256 - Publisher: Editions EHESS
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