Ce livre décrit la discipline de l'astronomie en France à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Il contient une bibliographie exhaustive de tous les travaux publiés sur les sciences astronomiques de 1781 à 1802. L'auteur, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, était lui-même un astronome célèbre de son temps, qui avait également publié des ouvrages majeurs sur le sujet.

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