Jean-Pierre Verdet | |
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 Verdet in 2012 | |
| Born | 1932 (age 91–92) |
| Occupation(s) | Astronomer, historian of astronomy, mathematician |
Jean-Pierre Verdet (born 1932) is a French astronomer, historian of astronomy and mathematician.
Jean-Pierre Verdet | |
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| Verdet in 2012 | |
| Born | 1932 (age 91–92) |
| Occupation(s) | Astronomer, historian of astronomy, mathematician |
Jean-Pierre Verdet (born 1932) is a French astronomer, historian of astronomy and mathematician.
Jean-Pierre Verdet is a Bachelor of Mathematics. Doctor of Science at Paris Diderot University (1975). In 1963, he entered the Paris Observatory, where, after studying the solar corona, he inaugurated infrared astronomy in France, then studied the radiation of the planets in this wavelength domain. He later became head of the Department of spherical astronomy at Paris Observatory. He has regularly taught the MAS of celestial mechanics at the Observatory, a higher education institution which is authorized to issue doctorates.
He left the Observatory in 1976, he devoted half of his activity to the history of ancient astronomy with the multidisciplinary team he had assembled at the Observatory, to translate Latin, Greek and Arabic astronomical texts. In the field of history of astronomy, in addition to scholarly works, he has authored many books for general public, especially for youth. He was a member of Pierre Marchand’s team that helped to create Gallimard Jeunesse. [1] He wrote Le ciel, ordre et désordre (1987), a heavily illustrated pocket book for Gallimard’s encyclopaedic collection "Découvertes", which has been translated into fourteen languages, including English. He has published more than 30 books at Gallimard. [2]
In 1991, he collaborated in the astronomical organisation Nuits des étoiles , with Daniel Kunth and Hubert Reeves on a TV show at France 2. The show lasted 4 hours. [3]
In 2016, the Budget Prize of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres was awarded to Michel-Pierre Lerner, Alain-Philippe Segonds and Jean-Pierre Verdet for their 3-volume critical works of Nicolaus Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium . [4]
For this same publication, which is the first critical work of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [5] that translated into French with commentaries, [6] the Alexandre Koyré Medal 2015 of International Academy of the History of Science was awarded to this team work. [7]
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Owen Jay Gingerich was an American astronomer who had been professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching, he had written many books on the history of astronomy.
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The Prutenic Tables, were an ephemeris by the astronomer Erasmus Reinhold published in 1551. They are sometimes called the Prussian Tables after Albert I, Duke of Prussia, who supported Reinhold and financed the printing. Reinhold calculated this new set of astronomical tables based on Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, the epochal exposition of Copernican heliocentrism published in 1543. Throughout his explanatory canons, Reinhold used as his paradigm the position of Saturn at the birth of the Duke, on 17 May 1490. With these tables, Reinhold intended to replace the Alfonsine Tables; he added redundant tables to his new tables so that compilers of almanacs familiar with the older Alfonsine Tables could perform all the steps in an analogous manner.
Nicolaus Mulerius was a professor of medicine and mathematics at the University of Groningen.
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