The development of astronomy can only be understood over a long period of time, taking into account the complex exchanges between different historical and cultural contexts. Astronomy is also linked to a number of other fields whose history it shares: that of the astronomical sciences.
This seminar looks at the astronomical sciences from a number of angles:

– That of scholarly practices, including the roles of mathematics and physics, the study of theories, methods of observation, instruments and measurements, and the construction of historiographical discourse in relation to the astronomical sciences.
– A material history of knowledge based on an examination of different types of archives and scientific instruments, drawing in particular on the heritage collections of the Observatoire de Paris.
– Finally, we will be looking at the local and global history of the places where knowledge is produced, the ways in which it is transmitted and the networks of players involved.

This seminar is intended as a forum for exchanges between historians of science, astronomers and astrophysicists.
astrophysicists, is open to a wide audience (researchers, teachers, students, etc.) and is held periodically at the Observatoire de Paris (in person and remotely).

It is the fruit of collaboration between the Centre François Viète (UR 1161, University of Nantes and University of Western Brittany), the Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies (UMR 7117 of the CNRS, the University of Lorraine, University of Strasbourg), the Bureau des Longitudes, the Paris Observatory Library and the SYRTE - Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace laboratory (UMR 8630, CNRS, Paris Observatory - PSL University, Sorbonne University and LNE).