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Sources to come back and read:

1667-1668 Math's - Académie des sciences Pg 7 - "Du 25e Avril 1668" "Le Mecredy" et seq. EcheveriaJ (talk) 21:06, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nota 2. proves interesting on page 9. --EcheveriaJ (talk) 21:16, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

pg 329 - 349, paper by unknown on position of French towns relative to celestial bodies. Sun's position throughout day in given locations at given times of the year. etc. Pg 349, Cassini's paper on Astronomical Observations - Facts about (diverse?) areas of the Kingdom" --EcheveriaJ (talk) 21:31, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cassinni dislikes such methods of measuring places relative to one another. Loses his shit over parallax and instrumental error.

Pg 351 - "l'occasion qui se présentoit d'en fair encore d'autre avant mon depart, & les continuer dans mon voyage. Je me proposai aussi de faire en même temps quelques Observations Geographiques, ayant pris à cet effet en ma compagnie M. Vivier, qui étoit employé par ordre du Roy, a travailler aux Cartes du Royaume sous la direction de l'Academie Royale des Sciences."--EcheveriaJ (talk) 21:41, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] - pg 95 and surrounding. Beware it's ALL handwritten and POORLY scanned/uploaded. WHY IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT SO POORLY MAINTAINED? I should really just stick to biological chemistry and not bother with this work in translating documents I have to research first from 375 years ago. THIS IS 5 REPUBLICS + A CENTURY AGO. Why can't I find a less tedious hobby? --EcheveriaJ (talk) 20:44, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Quotations

"Il n'est point douteux que toutes les erreurs que l'on remarque dans les Cartes, tant anciennes que modernes, ne viennent de ce que ceux qui les ont dressées, ont pris chacun des routes différentes; les uns se sont contentez d'estimer les distances par le temps que l'on emploie à aller d'un lieu à l'autre; les autres ont mesuré actuellement la longueur des chemins: ceux enfin qui ont opéré avec plus d'exactitude, ont formé quelques triangles dont ils ont observé les angles avec des planchettes ou d'autres instrumens [sic] encore plus imparfaits..." Pg 554 — Preceding unsigned comment added by EcheveriaJ (talk • contribs) 19:08, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]