Cahiers Franðcois Viáete sâerie III - no 14 2023 : une culture de la prâecision : les cercles mâeridiens aux XIXe et VVe siáecles /under the direction of Daniel Belteki, Julien Gressot, Loèic Jeanson & Jean Davoigneau.

"Meridian circles were tools of science, state and empire. Besides being used for astronomical observations, the by-products of observations made also had more utilitarian purposes applicable to commerce, transportation, industry and the expansion of empires. While meridian circles were created with the aim of producing spatial and temporal uniformity, observatories adopted different assemblages and configurations for their instruments. This issue brings together for the first time a variety of contributions to explore the material and social history of meridian circles. It deploys the concept assemblage to connect the different historical approaches together and to re-assemble the long history of the instrument."--Provided by the publisher.