Le poème sur la sphère du Toulousain D. Ricard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4842414 |
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| Authors | Germaine Aujac (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-82 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pallas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-0387 • E-ISSN: 2272-7639 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/palla.1995.1347 |
| OpenAlex | W2416515970 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 1 |
D. Ricard, born in Toulouse, a master of eloquence at Auxerre, then a tutor in Paris, took advantage of his forced retirement during the days of the French Revolution to compose an eight-canto poem on the Sphere. The topic was traditional with the Greeks, who applied the geometry of the sphere to the study of the sphere of heaven but also of the terrestrial globe in accordance with the geocentric hypothesis. D. Ricard wanted to give a fresh start to the issue by substituting for past errors present "truth", as revealed by Copernic and Newton, but he found that he simply could not avoid taking into account the necessity to resort to geocentrism in describing the apparent motions of the stars in the sky or the characteristics of the earth's areas. Which gave him the opportunity to address a stirring homage to his native city
Art · Heaven · Literature · Physics · Poetry · Geology · Historical and Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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