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Re: La Perouse
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Oct 6, 10:04 +0200
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Oct 6, 10:04 +0200
George wrote:
>How they found sufficient material from an expedition that failed to
return, to occupy 3 volumes eludes me; presumably he sent interim journals
back to Paris during his travels.
That's right: The "Pr�face du r�dacteur" in the first volume of the 1797
edition says that "we are not entirely deprived of the fruits of his
campaign" as he took every opportunity to send back his journals to Europe.
That seems to be good and common practice at the time. I don't have that
edition in my library, of course: You can find it on the "Gallica" website
which I have mentioned before.
Of greater interest for the list seem to be the extracts from the second
volume of the English translation (3rd Ed., London 1807) on the Website of
the Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Colection: Chapter XII:
Astronomical Observations
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/aj&CISOPTR=1
3467 containing remarks on the performance of their chronometers and the
reliability of their observations.
Wolfgang
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