Manila folder labelled 'Bernier'

Containers:

Box 1 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 5

Content Summary:

Contains sources on the life of the astronomer Pierre-François Bernier (1779–1803) who accompanied Nicolas Baudin to Australia and after whom Bernier Island (WA) is named. It includes a copy of his baptismal registration in La Rochelle (Charente Maritime) on 20 November 1779. It also contains biographical information on Bernier's teacher, Anne Jean Pascal Chysostome Duc de La Chapelle (1765–1814), including Maurice Souleil, 'Un académicien d'autrefois : L'astronome Duc-Lachepelle, Recueil de l'Académie de Montauban, 1939; Jean Dhombres (ed.) Aventures scientifiques: savants en Poitou-Charentes, du XVIe au XXe siècle, Les Éditions de L'actualité Poitou-Charentes, Poitiers, 1995, p. 239 Jacques Vialle, La Rochelle, l'astrolabe et les étoile: esquisse d'une histoire astronomique de La Rochelle, Editions Astrolabe, La Rochelle [1991], p. 27. The file also contains an English draft of Duyker's entry for Bernier in the Dictionnaire de Biographie mauricienne (no. 57, Juillet 2005, pp. 1958—1959)

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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