Between 1901 and 1906, a French military mission was sent to South America (mainly Ecuador) to measure a terrestrial meridian arc. The mission was organized under the auspices of the Bureau des longitudes and the International Geodetic Association. This mission was led by Lieutenant Robert Émile Bourgeois, from the geodesy section of the Service géographique de l’armée (Army Geographical Service). With the support of the mathematician Henri Poincaré, the mission carried out its task, not without difficulty, and secured im- portant scientific benefits for geodesy and its actors. Based on archival documentation mainly compiled in France, in this article I propose to study some events that occurred in the process of their studies to show the c...
En el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronómia y las ciencias de la tierra (cartogra...
French military geography and the Pyrenees, XVIIIth and XIXth century. The French military archives,...
En el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronómia y las ciencias de la tierra (cartog...
To explain the historical, scientific, technical and technolog- ical value of the Second Geodetic Mi...
Entre 1901 y 1906, un equipo de geógrafos militares franceses visitó el Ecuador para desarrollar el ...
Between 1901 and 1907, that is, one hundred and twenty years ago, Ecuador had the privilege of recei...
The essay comprises three parts. The first focuses on the im- portance of the First French Geodesic ...
Between 1901 and 1906, a team of French military geographers visited Ecuador to conduct the second g...
The French National Archives keep an extensive file relative to the second French geodetic mission i...
The essay presents an approach to the Second French Geodetic Mission carried out in Ecuador between ...
International audienceGeodesy in the nineteenth century was a branch of astronomy concernedwith the ...
International audienceDans un contexte composé d'acteurs, de lieux et de pratiques, il existe en Fra...
In the first part, the work will try to explain why the Second French Geodesic Mission was made up o...
International audienceEn el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronomía y la ciencias d...
When verifying that there is little Ecuadorian bibliography on the Second French Geodetic Mission in...
En el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronómia y las ciencias de la tierra (cartogra...
French military geography and the Pyrenees, XVIIIth and XIXth century. The French military archives,...
En el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronómia y las ciencias de la tierra (cartog...
To explain the historical, scientific, technical and technolog- ical value of the Second Geodetic Mi...
Entre 1901 y 1906, un equipo de geógrafos militares franceses visitó el Ecuador para desarrollar el ...
Between 1901 and 1907, that is, one hundred and twenty years ago, Ecuador had the privilege of recei...
The essay comprises three parts. The first focuses on the im- portance of the First French Geodesic ...
Between 1901 and 1906, a team of French military geographers visited Ecuador to conduct the second g...
The French National Archives keep an extensive file relative to the second French geodetic mission i...
The essay presents an approach to the Second French Geodetic Mission carried out in Ecuador between ...
International audienceGeodesy in the nineteenth century was a branch of astronomy concernedwith the ...
International audienceDans un contexte composé d'acteurs, de lieux et de pratiques, il existe en Fra...
In the first part, the work will try to explain why the Second French Geodesic Mission was made up o...
International audienceEn el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronomía y la ciencias d...
When verifying that there is little Ecuadorian bibliography on the Second French Geodetic Mission in...
En el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronómia y las ciencias de la tierra (cartogra...
French military geography and the Pyrenees, XVIIIth and XIXth century. The French military archives,...
En el siglo XIX la geodesia era fundamental para la astronómia y las ciencias de la tierra (cartog...