The Archives of the Academie des Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8939978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Stewart Saunders (Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 696-696 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286521 |
| OpenAlex | W1606977622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The Archives of the Academie des Sciences in Paris grew out of the loose collection of manuscripts and letters which served the scientific needs of its members and the record-keeping function of the secretary.When Jean Richer asked the secretary of the Academie for the return of a treatise at the meeting of 18 January 1676, the members voted to keep the original and return a copy to Richer. 1 As members died, some of their papers passed to the membership of the Academie, which published portions of the material.In March of 1683, for example, Edme Mariotte was charged with examining the manuscripts of the late Bernard Frenicle, and Nicolas-Francois Blondel was asked to survey the papers of Gilles Personne Roberval in order to determine what was worth publishing. 2 As a testimony to the responsible work of these early editors five cartons of Roberval's papers survive in the present Archives.This loose collection of scientific manuscripts, which was circulating informally among the membership of the Academie, began to assume the form of an archive during the Regency (1715-1725).In a memoir written about 1718, Joseph N. Delisle asked the abbe Jean-Paul Bignon for 2,500 livres to copy various compilations of astronomical observations in order that they would be available to several members of the Academie at the same time. 3Philippe de la Hire had acquired the papers of Jean Picard and Georg Marcgraff, and Jacques Cassini had in his possession the papers of his father, Jean-Dominique Cassini, and those of Jean Chazelles, Sedileau, 4 and Pere Louis Feuille.The tenor of the memoir indicated that these two members had been uncooperative in sharing their resources with other academicians.Delisle was apparently successful.In the years immediately following, he used the Archives of the Academie to prepare his Traite complet d'astronomie exposee historiquement et demontree par les observations. 5 The collections of the Academie were inventoried in 1732 and again in 1745. 6They included not only scientific manuscripts but also dried plants, minerals, anatomical specimens, astronomical devices, and models of machines
Political science · Historical and Literary Studies · History · History of Science and Natural History
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |