• Look up boussole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boussole (French "compass") may refer to: La Boussole, French ship Boussole (1782) Boussole Rock, Jukdo...
    401 bytes (80 words) - 17:33, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
    collections. His ships were L'Astrolabe (under Fleuriot de Langle) and La Boussole, both 500 tons. They were storeships reclassified as frigates for the occasion...
    56 KB (6,348 words) - 16:05, 26 April 2024
  • Boussole was a former flûte of the French Navy, famous for its exploration of the Pacific under Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. She was built...
    3 KB (248 words) - 17:02, 2 August 2023
  • Compass (French: Boussole ) is a novel by the French writer Mathias Énard, published in 2015. The book received the Prix Goncourt. During a sleepless night...
    5 KB (374 words) - 03:22, 2 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Four Great Inventions
    Press. ISBN 7-5085-0837-8. Li Shu-hua (1954). "Origine de la Boussole 11. Aimant et Boussole". Isis. Vol. 45, no. 2: July. Oxford. pp. 175–196. Needham...
    33 KB (3,760 words) - 17:33, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Médine (rapper)
    Medina), is a French rapper. He has been a part of the hip hop band La Boussole since 1996. Médine is a practicing Muslim, and many of his lyrics deal...
    8 KB (324 words) - 10:15, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lodestone
     98. ISBN 978-0415426992. Li, Shu-hua (1954). "Origine de la Boussole II. Aimant et Boussole". Isis (in French). 45 (2): 175–196. doi:10.1086/348315. JSTOR 227361...
    15 KB (1,553 words) - 08:34, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Perouse, New South Wales
    orders, Lapérouse departed Brest, France, in command of the Astrolabe and Boussole on 1 August 1785 on a scientific voyage of the Pacific inspired by the...
    25 KB (2,839 words) - 05:46, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Compass
    2307/3102323. JSTOR 3102323. S2CID 111540460. Li Shu-hua (1954). "Origine de la Boussole II. Aimant et Boussolee". Isis. 45 (2): 175–196. doi:10.1086/348315. JSTOR 227361...
    43 KB (5,844 words) - 22:56, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magnetism
    "其察言也,不失若磁石之取鍼,舌之取燔骨". Li, Shu-hua (1954). "Origine de la Boussole II. Aimant et Boussole". Isis (in French). 45 (2): 175–196. doi:10.1086/348315. JSTOR 227361...
    48 KB (6,219 words) - 12:06, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Fleet
    January, the party was startled when two French ships, the Astrolabe and the Boussole, were seen just outside Botany Bay. This was a scientific expedition led...
    79 KB (8,631 words) - 01:11, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magnet
    1086/346662. S2CID 143949193. Li Shu-hua (1954). "Origine de la Boussole II. Aimant et Boussole". Isis. 45 (2): 175–196. doi:10.1086/348315. JSTOR 227361....
    61 KB (7,729 words) - 18:37, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mathias Énard
    Rue des Voleurs (Street of Thieves). He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole (Compass). In 2020 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World...
    7 KB (603 words) - 21:13, 12 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Compass rose
    Saussure, L. de (1923) "L'origine de la rose des vents et l'invention de la boussole", Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, vol. 5, no.2 & 3, pp....
    27 KB (2,851 words) - 19:36, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adolphe Quetelet
    on Man and the Development of His Faculties. 1843. Sur l'emploi de la boussole dans les mines. 1845–1851. Sur le climat de la Belgique. 2 volumes. 1848...
    18 KB (1,926 words) - 19:20, 8 January 2024
  • settlement that became Australia. The wrecks of the expedition's two ships, the Boussole and Astrolabe), were subsequently discovered by Dumont-D'Urville during...
    198 KB (5,905 words) - 20:34, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the compass
    compasses for navigation [...] Shu-hua, Li (1954). "Origine de la Boussole II. Aimant et Boussole". Isis. 45 (2): 175–177. doi:10.1086/348315. ISSN 0021-1753...
    56 KB (7,310 words) - 01:33, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for French ship Astrolabe (1781)
    flûte Autruche for the French Navy. In May 1785 she and her sistership Boussole (previously Portefaix) were renamed and rerated as frigates, and fitted...
    5 KB (326 words) - 23:30, 8 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for International Booker Prize
    Chika Unigwe Shortlist Mathias Énard  France Charlotte Mandell Compass Boussole Fitzcarraldo Editions Roy Jacobsen  Norway Don Bartlett & Don Shaw The...
    62 KB (3,210 words) - 04:17, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Australia Day
    January. However, during 24 January, they spotted the ships Astrolabe and Boussole, flying the French flag, at the entrance to Botany Bay; they were having...
    53 KB (5,561 words) - 10:04, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Perouse Pinnacle
    under Fleuriot de Langle, and La Boussole, under de Galaup, narrowly avoided disaster at French Frigate Shoals. The Boussole mistook the pinnacle for the...
    6 KB (628 words) - 12:08, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Samoa
    two exploration parties on Tutuila's north shore: one from the ship La Boussole at Fagasa, and the other from L'Astrolabe at Aʻasu. One of the cooks, David...
    172 KB (16,918 words) - 02:06, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Puy du Fou
    led by Jean-François de La Pérouse. Guests board La Pérouse's ship, La Boussole, and closely follow the story of the Vendean Lieutenant Augustin de Monti...
    22 KB (2,060 words) - 02:40, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for French Frigate Shoals
    shoals were known to the outside world. La Pérouse, aboard the frigate Boussole, was sailing westward from Monterey en route to Macau. During the night...
    53 KB (5,770 words) - 18:25, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Necker Island (Hawaii)
    aboard the ships L'Astrolabe (under command of Fleuriot de Langle) and La Boussole and had just discovered the French Frigate Shoals (Basse des Frégates Françaises)...
    29 KB (3,411 words) - 22:10, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Pandora (1779)
    number of crew survived the cyclone that wrecked their ships Astrolabe and Boussole on Vanikoro's fringing reef. Heading west, making for the Torres Strait...
    28 KB (3,161 words) - 22:41, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1788
    president. January 24 – The La Perouse expedition in the Astrolabe and Boussole arrives off Botany Bay, just as Captain Arthur Phillip is attempting to...
    19 KB (2,214 words) - 08:23, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for European and American voyages of scientific exploration
    Captain: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741–1788) (on the Boussole) and Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle (1744–1787) (on the Astrolabe) Chief...
    84 KB (10,466 words) - 10:26, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Foucault's gyroscope
    horizontal, comme on le fait avec la boussole de déclinaison, soit dans un plan vertical, comme on le fait aussi avec la boussole d'inclinaison." The Oxford English...
    12 KB (1,487 words) - 19:40, 12 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gough Island
    Round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe: Under the Command of J.-F.G. de la Pérouse, Volume 1. Archived...
    38 KB (3,647 words) - 23:00, 2 May 2024