{"id":3217,"date":"2015-03-21T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:25:57","slug":"la-lettre-sur-la-comete-de-maupertuis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/la-lettre-sur-la-comete-de-maupertuis\/","title":{"rendered":"La lettre sur la com\u00e8te de Maupertuis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><strong>Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, <em>Lettre sur la com\u00e8te<\/em>, [Paris] : [s.n.], 1742<\/strong><br \/>\nAZ 8491<\/p>\n<p>Seconde \u00e9dition, publi\u00e9e la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e que la premi\u00e8re, augment\u00e9e d&rsquo;un frontispice grav\u00e9 par Dheuffand (Guillaume d&rsquo;Heuland) d&rsquo;apr\u00e8s Maugein repr\u00e9sentant plusieurs orbites de com\u00e8tes au sein du syst\u00e8me solaire.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759), philosophe, g\u00e9om\u00e8tre et astronome fran\u00e7ais, fut \u00e9galement un grand voyageur. Il se lia avec les Bernouilli, \u00e0 B\u00e2le, ainsi qu&rsquo;avec La Condamine et Voltaire dont il devait faire un disciple enthousiaste du syst\u00e8me de Newton.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00abLa com\u00e8te observ\u00e9e le 2 mars 1742 \u00e0 l\u2019Observatoire de Paris fut pour lui l\u2019occasion d\u2019adresser \u00e0 une dame une lettre o\u00f9 il rassemblait tout ce qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 dit de faux ou de vrai sur ces astres. Mais, loin de rassurer les hommes, il montre les ravages que les com\u00e8tes pourraient causer dans l\u2019univers par leur rencontre avec notre plan\u00e8te.\u00bb <\/em>(<em>Biographie g\u00e9n\u00e9rale<\/em>, t. 34, p. 389)<\/p>\n<p>Ex-libris grav\u00e9 du math\u00e9maticien fran\u00e7ais Michel Chasles (1793-1880).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/files\/2015\/03\/AZ_8491.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/files\/2015\/03\/AZ_8491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37256,37243,37246,37254,37236],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-18e-siecle","7":"category-18e-siecle-2014","8":"category-2011-2014","9":"category-livres-anciens","10":"category-livres-anciens-2014"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/rarissima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}