Il Bureau des longitudes (1795-1932), un’accademia di scienze astronomiche aperta all’internazionale - Archive ouverte HAL
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Il Bureau des longitudes (1795-1932), un’accademia di scienze astronomiche aperta all’internazionale

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Created during the French Revolution, the Bureau des longitudes still exists nowadays. Initially composed of ten members (2 surveyors, 4 astronomers, 2 ex-navigators, 1 geographer and 1 ‘artist’), it functioned as a small “academy of astronomical sciences”, covering fields such as the celestial mechanics, metrology, geodesy and earth sciences, etc. and acting as a spokesman for French science and technology for the international scene. However, it’s still little known to the public and even to historians. Research carried out within the framework of the ANR-project (French funding agency for project-based research) BDL 1795-1932, from October 2016 to March 2022, has enhanced the minutes of its meeting: this archival corpus consists of 21,602 sheets, now available with its transcriptions and others digital tools, on a dedicated website (http://bdl.ahp-numerique.fr/). In this paper, I aim to consider the traces of ‘Italians’ (i.e., unified Italy) in the minutes of the Bureau des longitudes. Who are they? Why mention them? What can we learn by their study? By dwelling on a few emblematic cases, I will show the richness of these archives and highlight the possibility of developing research in the history of science from a perspective that takes into account different societies and cultural contexts
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hal-04763647 , version 1 (02-11-2024)

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Martina Schiavon. Il Bureau des longitudes (1795-1932), un’accademia di scienze astronomiche aperta all’internazionale. Marco Di Mauro, Luigi Romano, Valeria Zanini (a cura di). Atti del XLIII Convegno annuale SISFA - Società italiana degli storici della fisica e dell’astronomia, FedOA – Federico II University Press, 2024, 978-88-6887-256-4. ⟨hal-04763647⟩
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