TY - JOUR
AU - McConnell, Anita
AB - BOOK REVIEWS geophysical researches, the bedrock on which it stood was depressed at high tide by the adjacent volume of water. D’Abbadie made use of this effect to examine the variation in the plumb line at low and high water. His interests in the fi gure and internal composition of the Earth were shared with his contemporaries – the astronomers François Arago, Charles Delaunay and Rudolph Radau (the latter helped get d’Abbadie’s early geophysical researches in Ethiopia and Brazil into print) and also with the hydrographer Anatole Bouquet de la Grye. But, as Poirier explains, d’Abbadie, for all his wide interests, had little taste for mathematics and did not collaborate with those contemporaries such as Siméon-Denis Poisson, Éleuthère Mascart and George Howard Darwin, for whom it served as a tool for geophysical research. This book, with its plentiful illustrations and useful references, brings vividly to life one of France’s lesser- known scientists and the world in which he operated. Anthony Turner and Jean-Paul Poirier, Antoine  F. Soulu, ‘L’apport de l’inventaire du patrimoine astronomi- que. L’example du château d’Abbadia’, La lettre de l’OICM d’Abbadie. Mémoire de la science . Paris, Acad- no.  (), pp. –. émie des sciences, 
TI - Antoine d'Abbadie
JO - Journal of the History of Collections
DO - 10.1093/jhc/fhi017
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/antoine-d-abbadie-eOzozVaeiv
SP - 129
EP - 129
VL - 17
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -