2023-08-01 09:52:37
Published on August 01, 2023 at 11:52. Modified on August 01, 2023 at 11:57.
measure the world
This week, The weather is interested in these fascinating people who paid with their lives (sometimes) or their creativity (always), to measure our spherical alcove.
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London and Paris, it’s like dog and cat, Oxford vs Cambridge: we fight, reconcile, and we start once more. The military and millennial rivalry across the Channel only ceased with the definitive exile of Napoleon. In the academic world, the game began to simmer with the creation of the first learned societies.
Across the Channel, first of all, with the Royal Society (1660) — since, true to the adage, the English were the first to shoot. Then to Paris, where Colbert founded the Royal Academy of Sciences six years later. He intends to map the Kingdom of Louis XIV with some ulterior motive. A meticulous inventory of the forests would be invaluable in assessing the timber available to build ships to… Challenge Albion on the seas of the Globe.
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