BUREAU DES LONGITUDES. Yearbook presented... - Lot 2 - Osenat

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BUREAU DES LONGITUDES. Yearbook presented... - Lot 2 - Osenat
BUREAU DES LONGITUDES. Yearbook presented to the king [...] for the year 1818. Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, year 1818. In-18, 196 pp, red long-grained morocco, smooth spine partitioned and fleurdelisé, gilt frame of fleurs-de-lis between straight and wavy fillets with coat of arms in the center, filleted edges, inner gilt roulette, renewed blue moire linings and endpapers, gilt edges; small stains on the second plate (period binding). PIONEER OF THE DIFFUSION OF ASTRONOMIC SCIENCE, LE BUREAU DES LONGITUDES was created in 1795, bringing together astronomers, geographers, surveyors and navigators. First under the direction of Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande and then, from 1807, under François Arago, the bureau published two periodicals, Connaissance des tems or Mouvements célestes à l'usage des astronomes et des navigateurs, and, for a wider public, the present Annuaire. In the latter, sunrises and sunsets, full moons, high tides, precipitation, and winds are indicated, with different theoretical texts each time, here on the measurement of time, probabilities, latitude and longitude, some of which are taken from works by Pierre-Simon de Laplace and Alexander von Humboldt. There are also concordances of measures and currencies, or human statistics concerning France. BINDING IN MAROQUIN WITH THE ARMS OF THE DUCHESS OF ANGOULÊME (iron missing from OHR). Elder daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, the Duchess of Angoulême Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France (1778-1851) was exiled twice: first during the Revolution and the Empire, to Louis XVIII, and second after the Revolution of 1830, to the French government. Revolution of 1830, with her deposed uncle Charles X and her husband the Duke of Angouleme.
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