Jean-Pierre Verdet | |
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| Born | 1932 (age 88–89) |
| Occupation | 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 88–89) |
| Occupation | 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 is 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 has written many books on the history of astronomy.
Découvertes Gallimard is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard. The books are concise introductions to particular subjects, intended for a general audience but written by experts.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.
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De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima, usually referred to as Narratio Prima, is an abstract of Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory, written by Georg Joachim Rheticus in 1540. It is an introduction to Copernicus's major work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, published in 1543, largely due to Rheticus's instigation. Narratio Prima is the first printed publication of Copernicus's theory.
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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.
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Serge Brunier is a French photographer, reporter, and writer who has specialized in popular depictions of astronomical subjects.
Aleksander Ludwik Birkenmajer was a Polish historian of exact sciences and philosophy, bibliologist, professor of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and of the Warsaw University.
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French essayist, epistemologist, astronomer and journalist who authored numerous popular science essays and articles. He helped promote hard science to the general public and advocated the development of fundamental scientific research in a "post-war disenchantment".
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Jean-Pierre Corteggiani is a French Egyptologist. He was director of IFAO’s scientific and technical relations until 2007.
Pierre Marchand was a significant figure in French publishing history, who gave French publishing an international dimension. He created the magazine Voiles et Voiliers with Jean-Olivier Héron in 1971. He joined Éditions Gallimard in 1972 and immediately founded Gallimard Jeunesse, the youth department and subsidiary of Éditions Gallimard, which he managed until 1999, notably creating a number of well-known collections, such as "1000 Soleils", "Folio Junior" (1977), "Folio Benjamin" (1980), as well as "Découvertes Gallimard" (1986).
Anne Distel is a French honorary general curator of heritage at the Musée d'Orsay and specialist in Impressionist paintings.
Quentin Bajac is a French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography. He is the director of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
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