Bureau des longitudes
Bureau des Longitudes meeting minutes, 1795-1932.
On this site you will find image versions of all the minutes of meetings for the 1795-1932 period. Eventually the documents online will be fully transcribed but currently transcriptions are available up to the date of August 9th 1854.
The Bureau des longitudes was founded on June 25th 1795 and still exists today. From its date of creation until 1854, it directed the Observatoire de Paris. Its mission was also to improve how longitudes at sea were determined and to constitute a scientific and technological expert advisory committee for the French State. More specifically, the Bureau was assigned the tasks of calculating ephemerides and publishing La Connaissance des Temps (Knowledge Of Time) and an almanac or calendar which "set those of the Republic" (the Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes). In 1877 and 1949 it also published the Annales du Bureau des longitudes.
Bureau des longitudes
Observatoire de Paris.
Ephemerides.
phm̌řides (astronomie) ram
Longitude
Longitude -- France -- Paris.
Longitude -- Measurement -- History.
Longitude -- Research.
Observatories -- France.
Minutes. aat
AIP-ICOS
Universit ̌de Lorraine. Archives Henri-Poincar ̌- Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies. Nancy, France.