L’Abbé Jean Lebeuf, (1687-1760), a forgotten precursor of archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy
Volume 10 (2008): Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions and Cultural Heritage, pp. 119–124
Pub. online: 20 December 2008
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
29 October 2007
29 October 2007
Revised
5 September 2008
5 September 2008
Published
20 December 2008
20 December 2008
Abstract
In the eighteenth century, the Abbé Lebeuf was a reknowned historian, a folklorist, a musicologist, and an archaeologist. He published several books and many articles in the Mercure de France. He was still famous in the 19th century but is now almost forgotten. His work contains a great many notes, reflections and other pieces of information of interest to those studying astronomy in culture. I present here a short selection of such fragments.