Paris Observatory foundation. This French observatory,funded by King Louis XIV and his finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert,was designed by Claude Perrault and built during the period 1667 to 1672. The north-south orientation of the observatory (the future Paris Meridian) was marked on a stone by the founding astronomers (Auzout,Frenicle,Picard,Buot,and Richer) and members of the Royal Academy of Sciences during a ceremony on the 1667 summer solstice (21 June). This artwork,by French illustrator Leon Benett (1838-1917),is from Astronomical Myths (1877) by the British geologist John Frederick Blake (1839-1906) | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Royal Astronomical Society |
Bildgröße: | 3384 px × 5315 px |
Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Restrictions: | - |