Emmanuel Poulle

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Emmanuel Poulle (born June 8, 1928 in Paris , † August 1, 2011 in Avranches ) was a French archivist, science historian and palaeographer , director of the École nationale des chartes .

Emmanuel Poulle studied at the École des chartes, where he received his diploma as archivist-paleographer in 1954 with the thesis Recherches sur les traités médiévaux d'instruments astronomiques d'observation . He was then director of the archives of the Aube department and from 1956 to 1958 curator in the Direction des Archives de France. In 1961 he received a diploma from the École pratique des hautes études . In 1959 he became general secretary of the École des chartes and after a time at the CNRS from 1968 to 1970 he was professor of palaeography at the École des chartes, which he remained until 1997. In 1979 he received his doctorate (Docteur d'État ès Lettres) with a dissertation on planetary theories in the Middle Ages. From 1988 to 1993 he was director of the École des chartes.

In 1996 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , of which he was vice-president in 2004 and president in 2005. He was an officer in the Legion of Honor , commander of the Palmes Academiques and an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. From 1993 to 2009 he was secretary of the Académie internationale d'Histoire des Sciences and was president of the Société d'archéologie d'Avranches, Mortain et Granville. He was a member of several scientific and historical commissions, such as the Commission du Vieux Paris , the Commission des Travaux historiques de la Ville de Paris , the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques , the Comité international de paleographie latine and the Comité international de paleographie hébraïque .

Poulle dealt in particular with the history of astronomy in the Middle Ages (like Raymond von Marseille and Giovanni de Dondi , especially astronomical instruments and clocks) and with Latin and French palaeography of the Middle Ages.

He also dealt with the Turin Shroud .

Fonts

  • with Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, Charles Burnett Raymond de Marseille. Opera Omnia , Volume 1 (Traité de l'Astrolabe. Liber Cursuum Planetarum), CNRS editions 2009, website for the book (the planned second volume should contain the Liber Judiciorum)
  • Various articles in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography such as on Raymond von Marseille, Oronce Fine , William of Saint Cloud, John of Ligneres, Johannes de Muris
  • Le traité d'astrolabe de Raymond de Marseille , Studi Medievali, 3rd series, Volume 5, 1964, pp. 866-909
  • Un constructeur d'instruments astronomiques au XVe siècle, Jean Fusoris , Paris: H. Champion 1963
  • Les instruments de la théorie des planètes selon Ptolémée: équatoires et horlogerie planétaire du XIIIe au XVIe siècle , 2 volumes, Geneva: Droz, Paris: H. Champion, 1980
  • Astronomie théorique et astronomie pratique au Moyen âge , Paris, Palais de la Decouverte, around 1967
  • Les sources astronomiques: textes, tables, instruments , Turnhout 1981
  • Les tables alphonsines, avec les canons de Jean de Saxe , Paris, CNRS, 1984
  • with others: The planetary clock: a masterpiece of astronomy and renaissance technology created by Eberhard Baldewein 1563-1568 , German Society for Chronometry 2008
  • Johannis de Dondis, Paduani civis, astrarium. I, Facsimile del manoscritto di Padova e traduzione francese , II, édition critique de la version A, 1987–1988
  • Tractatus Astrarii: Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio , Geneva, Droz 2003 (critical edition, Latin and French translation)
  • L'astrarium de Giovanni Dondi Padoue, Bibliothèque capitulaire, ms D. 39 , Ecole nationale des chartes 1998
  • Autour de Gerbert d'Aurillac: le pape de l'an mil , École nationale de chartes, Geneva: Droz, Paris: H. Champion 1996
  • Paléographie des écritures cursives en France du 15e au 17e siècle , Geneva: Droz 1966
  • Astronomie planetaire au moyen age latin , Aldershot, Variorum 1996
  • Henri Baers ou Vekenstyl Les tables astronomiques de Louvain de 1528 , Édition Culture et Civilization, Brussels 1976 (Faksilim edition, commentary and translation by Poulle and Antoine de Smet)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Poulle Les sources de l'histoire du linceul de Turin. Revue critique , Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, 2009 / 3–4, Abstract ( Memento from 10 July 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Le linceul de turin victime d'Ulysse Chevalier , Revue d'histoire de l'Eglise de France, volume 92, 2006, pp. 343–358, first page of the article, payment barrier at Brepols , in the latter article he accuses the historian Ulysse Chevalier (1841–1923) of intellectual dishonesty in dealing with the sources on the shroud
personal data
SURNAME Poulle, Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archivist, science historian and paleographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2011
Place of death Avranches