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L’événement astronomique du siècle ? Histoire sociale des passages de Vénus, 1874-1882

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
The transits of Venus are rare phenomena (two per century, separated by 8 years), making it possible to determine the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
David Aubin
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Sensational Differences: the Case of the Transit of Venus

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
In the nineteenth century, astronomers, physiologists and experimental psychologists noticed that different individuals timed simultaneous phenomena differently.
Jimena Canales
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Models, Metaphors, and the Transit of Venus at Victorian Greenwich

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
During the nineteenth century, the Royal Observatory Greenwich underwent a remarkable transformation, which has been described by historians as like an industrial revolution in observatory science. George Biddell Airy (Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881)
Jessica Ratcliff
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Des bras de Vénus aux fauteuils de l’Académie, ou comment le passage de Vénus permit à Ernest Mouchez de devenir le premier marin directeur de l’Observatoire de Paris

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
Ernest Mouchez was a naval officer trained in the École navale, someone who developed early his expertise in astronomical observation and was held as a hero of the war of 1870-1871.
Guy Boistel
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Astronomie de terrain entre Académie des sciences et Armée

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
At the end of the 19th century, transits of Venus in front of the Sun provided opportunities to set up several scientific expeditions around the world.
Martina Schiavon
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L’expédition à Nouméa : l’occasion d’une réflexion sur l’astronomie française

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
On the occasion of the 1874 Transit of Venus, the Paris Observatory sent the astronomer Charles André to Nouméa (New Caledonia) to observe the phenomenon.
Laetitia Maison
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Conspiracies of Proof and Diversity of Judgement in Astronomy and Physics: On Physicists’ Attempts to Time Light’s Wings and Solve Astronomy’s Noblest Problem

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
Amongst the various methods of establishing the distance of the sun to the earth, by the late 19th century measures of the velocity of light had taken a prominent place, apparently trumping transit observations.
Richard Staley
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Image et mesure : deux cultures aux origines de l’astrophysique française

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
In the commission preparing the 1874 transit of Venus, debates about the choice of photographic techniques are illustrative of the stakes that would come to characterize the beginning of astronomy in France over the following decades.
Stéphane Le Gars
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Transits and Transitions: Astronomy, Topography, and Politics in Russian Expeditions to View the Transit of Venus in 1874

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
Russian expeditions to observe the transit of Venus in 1874 provide an opportunity to explore the nature of astronomy and society in late Imperial Russia. This paper brings to light the personnel and places involved in Russian missions and examines their
Simon Werrett
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De la vallée du Nil aux oasis du désert occidental d’Égypte

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2010
Nulle science n’échappe aux courants et aux remous qui agitent son époque. Née à la fin du xixe siècle, issue d’un monde occidental en plein élan colonialiste, l’égyptologie est « blanche » et se tourne, quand il s’agit des origines, vers un Orient ...
Béatrix Midant-Reynes
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