Bertaux, Emile
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Nom
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Bertaux, Emile
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Date de naissance
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1840
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Date de mort
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11 August 1903
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 19th century
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Biographie
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A publisher of geographical works, Bertaux succeeded to the business of Charles Dien. He included in his range the Moon globe of C.M. Gaudibert and Camille Flammarion, the Mars globes of E. Antoniadi and Flammarion (1884),1 and a terrestrial ‘Globe métrique’ (2). A 30cm terrestrial globe by him is dated 1886 (3). He also published celestial planispheres for the Journal du Ciel (4), and globes by Dien, Dubail and the navisphere of de Magnac, made by F.W. Eichens, besides other instruments devised by this navigator, were listed by him, as were those devised by the Vice-Admiral J. Lejeune. Fléchet's mechanical equinoctial mean-time dial could be obtained from him, as. could J. Laurendeau's 'Drawing-romm observatory - a series of eleven pierced constellation cards (5). Special globes for Chancourtois’ sphereography designed by Grosselin were made by him (6). In the 1867 International Exhibition he was awarded a bronze medal and he who devised a clockwork driven planetarium contained contained within a glass star sphere (7). A globe clock using one of his globes is known. In 1875, Bertaux joined the house of Delamarche, solicited by the managing director, Gosselin. A founding-member of the Société Astronomique de France in 1887 and both its secretary and its treasurer, Bertaux was awarded the Prix de Dames for his services in 1903. He was succeeded in the direction of the Delamarche business by G. Thomas.
Globe sizes: terrestrial 8cm to 66cm (including a Spanish edition); celestial 8cm to 66cm. These were issues of the Delamarche/Dien globes revised by E. Desbuissons.
Armillary spheres, either Ptolemaic or Copernican were available from 8cm to 33cm, as were geared planetaria.
Among the atlases he published was MAGER, Henri. 'Petit Atlas de géographie en relief ' [n.d. but ca. 1880 - 1883.]
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Notes biographiques
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1 Perret 3, 51.
2 Randier 22. 7. 95 lot 119.
3 Peticollot 7. 12. 1997 lot 160
4 Christie's SK. 7. 6. 2000 lot 35.
5 Dekker & Krogt 172; Catalogue annexed to the 'new edition' of Dien's 'de l'usage des globes et des sphères (nd).
6 Chantcourtois 1.
7. Several examples are known, see Van Gaver & Turner 68-9. It is illustrated in the 1882-83 catalogue, p. 9.
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Bibliographie
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Catalogue 1882-83 (BnF 8° V 49).
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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25 rue Serpente Paris
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Identifiant
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1065
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