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Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928International Geodesy in the Post-war Period, as Seen by the French Bureau des Longitudes (1917–1922)

Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928: International... [This paper studies the reconstitution of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union after the First World War. Covering the period 1917–1922, it questions the historical signification of geodesy and its evolution from the local and particular point of view of the members of the Bureau des longitudes, the French “academy of astronomical sciences” which included, from its creation in 1795, prestigious mathematicians, Navy and Artillery officers, and distinguished precision instrument-makers. Taking as an archival sources the minutes of the Bureau des longitudes, and focusing on its small but very significant network of actors, my proposal is twofold: firstly, showing the strong involvement of its members into the administration of French sciences and technologies, and into the constitution of a renewed and selected post-war international geodetic community. Secondly, and more generally, relying on a specific and national context of actors and instruments, I want to encourage a more extensive and comprehensive study of post-war international geodesy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928International Geodesy in the Post-war Period, as Seen by the French Bureau des Longitudes (1917–1922)

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Editors: Mazliak, Laurent; Tazzioli, Rossana
Schiavon, Martina
Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928 — Mar 28, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-61682-3
Pages
151 –189
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-61683-0_6
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[This paper studies the reconstitution of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union after the First World War. Covering the period 1917–1922, it questions the historical signification of geodesy and its evolution from the local and particular point of view of the members of the Bureau des longitudes, the French “academy of astronomical sciences” which included, from its creation in 1795, prestigious mathematicians, Navy and Artillery officers, and distinguished precision instrument-makers. Taking as an archival sources the minutes of the Bureau des longitudes, and focusing on its small but very significant network of actors, my proposal is twofold: firstly, showing the strong involvement of its members into the administration of French sciences and technologies, and into the constitution of a renewed and selected post-war international geodetic community. Secondly, and more generally, relying on a specific and national context of actors and instruments, I want to encourage a more extensive and comprehensive study of post-war international geodesy.]

Published: Mar 28, 2021

Keywords: Geodesy; International Union of Geodesy Diplomacy and Geophysics; French Geodesic Commission; Bureau des longitudes; War and Inter-war period

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