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Re: French Lunar story
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 13, 11:38 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 13, 11:38 -0500
Wolfgang, Thanks for your guide to research. I will try to find these things. 93 Euros for a book seems a bit too much for me, but I will try to see what is available on Internet, using the keys you give. Alex. > Alex, > there is, of course more literature on the "lunar story" in French (and > France) than Marguet. An older treatise is: Guyot, Edmond, Histoire de la > détermination des longitudes, La-Chaux-de-Fonds 1955, dealing with all > methods to determine longitude. It is long out of print but you can buy it > on the net for a mere 92,96 Euros (plus postage). > Lately Guy Boistel has done a doctoral thesis on "L`astronomie nautique au > XVIIIème siècle en France: tables de la lune et longitudes en mer", > s.l.,s.d. (probably Lille 2003, Atelier Nationale de Reproduction des > Thèses) and published some more articles on that subject. And there is a > collection of texts edited by Vincent Jullien: Le calcul des longitudes, > Rennes 2002, with contributions by Vincent Jullien, Susanne Débarbat, > Francois Bellec, Danielle Fauque, Philippe Despoix, Guy Boistel and some > others, the cream of french historians of nautical science. > As one can see there is a lively discussion in France with a lot of > research being done that isn't recognized abroad. Same with the > discussions in Portugal where there is a host of people centered around > the Academia de Marinha doing interesting research. But one has to be able > to read more than English to be aware of this. > By the way: The Dutch have also been very much interested in the longitude > problem since the 17th century: Huygens - who tried to construct a marine > time keeper himself (without success) - acted as an expert for the Staten > General and the OIC to assess the merits of proposals that were sent to > these bodies - most of them by cranks and/or not really useful. > Same with the Spanish. And the first nautical treatise on the longitude > problem was by a Portuguese: Ruy Faleiro, O regimento da altura de > Leste-Oeste (ca. 1519), first published by Avelino Texeira da Mota and > reedited in 1986. > > Have fun > Wolfgang > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > NavList message boards and member settings: www.fer3.com/NavList > Members may optionally receive posts by email. > To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=121930 > > >