• Thumbnail for List of stars for navigation
    Fifty-seven navigational stars and additionally the star Polaris are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately...
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  • (2000) Délire des négations (2001) Les jardins de l'asile (2008) La navigation astronomique (2011) Chemins traversiers II (2015) Passage à l'acte et acting...
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    and published a course on astronomical navigation and dead reckoning, La navigation astronomique et la navigation estimée, aimed at navy students of the...
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    stars Bibliographie astronomique (1803), with a history of astronomy from 1780 to 1802 Astronomie des dames (1785) Abrégé de navigation (1793) Voyage d'un...
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    The Prix d'Astronautique (Astronautics Prize) awarded by the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society, was the first prize on this...
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    modern constellations. Ursa Minor has traditionally been important for navigation, particularly by mariners, because of Polaris being the north pole star...
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    Sundman à un cas particulier du problème des trois corps". Bulletin Astronomique. Série 2. 6: 417–434. Bibcode:1930BuAst...6..417B. Burrau (1913). "Numerische...
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    In the past, the Neuchatel Observatory was known as the Observatoire Astronomique et Chronometrique de Neuchatel, in reference to the fact that it participated...
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    History of longitude (category History of navigation)
    of longitude is important to both cartography and navigation. In particular, for safe ocean navigation, knowledge of both latitude and longitude is required...
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    SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 25 May 2012. "Beta Arietis". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved...
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