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Revue d'histoire des sciences - Année 1979 - Volume 32 - Numéro 4 - Pages 289-304RÉSUMÉ. — La plupart des cartographes français du XVIe siècle prirent pour méridien origine le méridien de l'Ile de Fer (archipel des Canaries). Louis XIII en 1634 rendit obligatoire son utilisation. Les astronomes de l'Académie des Sciences, fondée en 1666, parvinrent à préciser la position du méridien de Paris, qui supplanta peu à peu celui de l'Ile de Fer. Finalement la France adopta en 1911 le méridien de Greenwich, mais conserva celui de Paris pour ses cartes topographiques.
SUMMARY. — In the 16th century, most French cartographers used the meridian of the Ferro Island (Canary Islands) as a zero meridian. In 1634 Louis XIII decreed its obligatory usage as such. The astronomers of the Académie des Sciences, founded in 1666, succeeded in measuring more exactly the meridian passing through Paris, which, from that time, began to supplant that of the Ferro Island as a point of origin for geodesic measurements. It was only in 1911 that France adopted the Greenwich meridian, although that of Paris was retained for French topographical maps.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
SUMMARY. — In the 16th century, most French cartographers used the meridian of the Ferro Island (Canary Islands) as a zero meridian. In 1634 Louis XIII decreed its obligatory usage as such. The astronomers of the Académie des Sciences, founded in 1666, succeeded in measuring more exactly the meridian passing through Paris, which, from that time, began to supplant that of the Ferro Island as a point of origin for geodesic measurements. It was only in 1911 that France adopted the Greenwich meridian, although that of Paris was retained for French topographical maps.
16 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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