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[Illustrations de Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi à l'Equateur, servant d'introduction historique à la Mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien] / Moille, grav. ; P. Claw, dess. ; Charles-Marie de La Condamine, aut. du texte
No full textComprend : [Carte dépl. en reg. p.A1 :] Carte des routes de Mr. de la Condamine tant par mer que par terre dans le cours du voyage à l'Equateur, par le Sr. d'Anville, 1749. [cote : Réserve F 3711 L 14 A] ; [Image en bandeau au-dessus du titre : Mr. de la Condamine gravant sur une pierre. Paysage de l'Equateur.] [cote : Réserve F 3711 L 14 A] ; [pl. dépl. en reg. p.20 : voyage de la Condamine à l'Equateur.] Vue de la base mesurée dans la plaine d'Yarouqui, près de Quito, depuis Carabourou jusqu'à Oyambaro, sous un arc qui comprend 180 degrés de l'horizon. Dessiné du haut de la ch ; [plan dépl. en reg. p.33 : voyage de la Condamine à l'Equateur et au Pérou.] Plan de Quito, capitale de la province du même nom dans le royaume de Pérou. [cote : Réserve F 3711 L 14 A] ; [pl. en reg. p.146 : Minerve entourée d'enfants tenant les attributs des différentes sciences.] [cote : Réserve F 3711 L 14 A] ; [pl. dépl. en reg. p.163 : voyage de la Condamine à l'Equateur et au Pérou.] La mesure représentant le quart du pendule équinoctial, devant avoir près de 9 pouces 1 ligne 4/5, est trop longue d'environ 3/5 de ligne de trop. [cote : Réserve ; [pl. en reg. p.219 : voyage de la Condamine à l'Equateur. Quito.] Plan, profil et élévation des deux pyramides. [cote : Réserve F 3711 L 14 A] ; [Carte dépl. en reg. p.270 : Pérou.] Carte de la Province de Quito au Pérou, dressée sur les observations astronomiques, mesures géographiques, journaux de route et mémoires de Mr. La Condamine et sur ceux de Don Pedro Maldonado par Mr. D'AnThème : GéographieDescriptions et voyages -- +* 1700......- 1799......+:18e siècle:Illustratio
L'Amerique Suivant Le R. P. Charlevoix Jte. Mr. De La Condamine. et Plusieurs autres Nouvle. Observations
No full text18th centuryCopper engraving handcolored with watercolor. Paper contains watermarks.<
Full color.
Relief shown pictorially.
Printed in the upper left corner in cartouche:
"L'Amerique Suivant Le R. P. Charlevoix Jte. Mr. De La Condamine. et Plusieurs autres Nouvle. Observations A Paris. Par le Sr. Le Rouge Ing. Geographe du Roy. rue des Grs. Augustins 1746."
Printed in lower left corner is a table describing how the Americas have been divided up among owning European nations including France, Spain, Portugal, England and Denmark. The key shows which countries are in North America and South America. Also includes notes about which religions (Catholic, Protestant, Worship of the Sun, and the Cult of Idols) dominate in which regions.
Printed in lower right corner is a numbered list of particular changes in this map:
"Changements de Cette Carte. 1o. Dans la Baye d'Hudson la baye Repulsée la Riviere de Vager et l'Isle decouverte par les Anglois en 1742. 2o. les Cinq Lacs au Nord du Lac Superieur le Fleuve de l'Ouest & par le R. P. Charlevoix 3o. la Riviere des Amazones par Mr. de la Condamine avec la Comunication a l'Orinoque par Rio 4o. les Cotes et les Isles sont prises sur les Cartes Marines que Mr. de Maurepas a fait faire."
Printed in upper left corner in Northern Pacific Ocean are the tracks of Alexei Tchirkow's expedition from Kamchatka to the coast of Alaska in 1741.
Depicts entire Western Hemisphere including North America, South America, Greenland, and the West Indies. Also includes part of western Africa, part of western Europe and some islands in the South Pacific including the Solomon Islands. North America has been divided into Canada, California, New Mexico, Florida, Carolina, and New England. South America has been divided into Terre Ferme, Mission Portugaises, Bresil, Paraguay, Terre Magellanique, Chili, and Peru. Shows the mythical Sea of the West, a River of the West running into it and the mythical kingdom of Quivira in the northwest coast of North America. Of note, the outline of Alaska is misshapen and much of the northwest portion of North America has been left blank or is distorted. Includes notes throughout on various discoveries of islands or places. The title cartouche is an decorated with flora, bows and arrows, a pitchfork and a parasol at the top.
Prime Meridian: Ferro.
Scale: ca. 1:19,000,000-40,000,000.George-Louis Le Rouge (fl. 1741-79) was a French cartographer and publisher. He also served as the "Ingenieur Géographe du Roi" in France. His 1778 atlas, "Atlas Américain Septentrional" was "one of the best French collections of North American maps" at the time of publication. His other works include "Atlas General" (1741-62), "Recueil des Cartes Nouvelles (1742), "Guerre en Europe (1743), "Atlas Portatif" (1748), and Recueil des Plans de l'Amerique Septentrional (1755) (Tooley, 389; Portinaro and Knirsch, 316).
Pierre Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix was a Jesuit missionary who was commissioned by France in 1720 to explore the area west of the Great Lakes in Canada. During his expedition he saw Niagara and Detroit. He also followed the Mississippi River south. He believed the Missouri River headed west and subscribed to the belief in the mythical Sea of the West. His memoirs of his travels are highly descriptive and though he wrote them in 1723, they were not published until 1744 (Howgego, 217).
Charles Marie de la Condamine was a French geographer and mathematician. In 1735, he was sent on an expedition to Peru to work determining distances between degrees of latitude. On his return, he explored parts of Brazil along the Amazon (Howgego, 583-4).
Alaska was first discovered and mapped by Russian explorers in the eighteenth century. Peter the Great sent out his Danish captain, Vitus Bering in 1728. Bering left from Kamchatka Peninsula and heading east but had little luck in finding land in America. In 1732, Mikhail Gvozdev saw the eastern coast of the Diomede Islands in what is now modern-day Bering Strait, prompting more exploration. In spring of 1741, the Second Kamchatka Expedition began in which Bering was able to explore the Aleutian Islands. During this expedition, Bering and his fellow commander, Aleksei Chirikov (or Tschirikov), attempted to explored the northwest coast of Alaska. Chirikov had little luck, however, landing at Baker Island and coasting north towards Baranof Island. After an exploration boat from his voyage did not return, he decided to return to Kamchatka. Bering's voyage went worse. He was able to explore a little further south and land at Kayak Island during which time the major naturalist and scientist, Georg Steller, hurriedly conducted research on the island. On his return to Kamchatka, Bering wrecked on what is now modern-day Bering Island and died during the crew's stay on the island. After nearly a year, the remaining crew was able to build a ship from the wreckage of the first ship and sail back to Kamchatka, arriving in September of 1742 (Hayes, 102-5).
This map is indicative of Tchirikow's exploration in 1741 and 1742 as well as expeditions by Charlevoix and La Condamine.
Source(s):
Hayes, Derek. "America Discovered: A Historical Atlas of North American Exploration. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2004.
Portinaro, Pierluigi and Franco Knirsch. "The Cartography of North America 1500-1800." New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1987.
Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979
Mesure des trois premiers degrés du Méridien dans l'Hemisphere Austral
No full textContén: Letre a Monsieur de La Condamine dans laquelle on discute divers points d'Astronomie pratique et quelques remarques sur le Supplement ou Journal Historique que du Voyage a l'Equateur de M. de la C. / par M. Bouger -- Paris : Chez Hipp. Louis Guerin & L. Fr. Delatour, 1754 -- 2 f., 51 p
11th International Riversymposium: A Future of Extremes
No full textThe Condamine River, at the headwaters of the Murray-Darling basin, drains one of the most intensively-farmed landscapes in eastern Australia. Riparian woodland remnants on the floodplain sections of the upper Condamine are widely recognised as being in generally poor condition, with evidence of significant dieback and limited recruitment of canopy species, as well as widespread invasion by the introduced perennial herb Phyla canescens (lippia). These communities, in keeping with most remnant ecosystems of agricultural landscapes, are poorly understood in terms of their diversity, function and dynamics (resilience) under altered disturbance regimes. This research investigates the condition (health and function) of Eucalyptus tereticornis/camaldulensis riparian woodland communities of the Condamine floodplain in relation to selected natural and anthropogenic disturbance factors (e.g. climate variability, changes in land- and wateruse, weed invasion) operating at a range of spatial and temporal scales. The study takes a multi-dimensional approach aimed at developing an integrated understanding of key drivers and mechanisms of ecosystem change in these environments. It also investigates the potential of simple conceptual tools (e.g. State-and-Transition and Bayesian Belief Network approaches) to model system dynamics and predict outcomes of future climate and land and water management scenarios, including environmental flow restoration
FIG. 1. — Uloma vanuatensis L. Soldati n in Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821
No full textFIG. 1. — Uloma vanuatensis L. Soldati n. sp. holotype ♂ (MNHN EC2280): A, habitus (dorsal view); B, habitus (lateral view); C, habitus (ventral view); D, forebody (lateral view); E, aedeagus (lateral view); F, aedeagus (tergal face). Scale bars: A-C, 10 mm; D-F, 1 mm. Photographs: L. Soldati.Published as part of Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J. & Condamine, Fabien L., 2012, Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, pp. 305-317 in Zoosystema 34 (2) on page 310, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n2a8, http://zenodo.org/record/516543
Erratum: “Setup for meV-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering measurements and X-ray diffraction at the Matter in Extreme Conditions endstation at the Linac Coherent Light Source” (Review Of Scientific Instruments (2018) 89 (10F104) DOI: 10.1063/1.5039329)
No full textIn the original paper1 the co-author E. J. Gamboa was erroneously omitted. The corrected author list is identical to that of this erratum, and repeated below for clarity: E. E. McBride,1,2,a) T. G. White,3 A. Descamps,1,4 L. B. Fletcher,1 K. Appel,2 F. Condamine,5,6 C. B. Curry,1,7 F. Dallari,8 S. Funk,9 E. Galtier,1 E. J. Gamboa,1 M. Gauthier,1 S. Goede,2 J. B. Kim,1 H. J. Lee,1 B. K. Ofori-Okai,1,10 M. Oliver,11 A. Rigby,11 C. Schoenwaelder,1,9, P. Sun,1 Th. Tschentscher,2 B. B. L. Witte,1,12 U. Zastrau,2 G. Gregori,11 B. Nagler,1 J. Hastings,1 S. H. Glenzer,1 and G. Monaco8 1 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA 2 European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, D-22869 Schenefeld, Germany 3 University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada 89506, USA 4 Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA 5 Sorbonne Universits, UPMC, LULI, UMR 7605, Case 128, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France 6 LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA-CNRS-UPS, 91228 Palaiseau, France 7 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada 8 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit`a di Trento, via Sommarive 14, 38123 Povo, TN, Italy 9 Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-N ̈urnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany 10 Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 11 Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom 12 Universit ̈at Rostock, Institut f ̈ur Physik, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
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