Rieznik Marina
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e da Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2010;17(3):679-703. doi: 10.1590/s0104-59702010000300007.
In 1882, the director of the Córdoba Observatory became involved in a debate over international missions that were observing the transit of Venus across the sun, criticizing them for doing "harm to science, leaving substance aside in search of a shadow." The governor of Buenos Aires province and members of France's Bureau of Longitudes fostered these missions, and the instruments they used would serve in the founding of the local observatory in La Plata. The Córdoba observatory's second director would later state that the work carried out in La Plata had been as useful as "a single well bucket in irrigating the area covered by Córdoba's canals." The article reveals the hidden rivalry between international networks engaged in mutual accusations and the ensuing disputes between institutions.
1882年，科尔多瓦天文台台长卷入了一场关于观测金星凌日的国际任务的争论，他批评这些任务“对科学有害，舍本逐末”。布宜诺斯艾利斯省省长和法国经度局成员推动了这些任务，他们使用的仪器将用于拉普拉塔当地天文台的创建。科尔多瓦天文台的第二任台长后来表示，在拉普拉塔开展的工作就像“科尔多瓦运河所覆盖地区灌溉用水的一只单桶”一样有用。这篇文章揭示了国际网络之间相互指责背后隐藏的竞争以及各机构之间随之而来的争端。
