Haering
Contenu
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Nom
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Haering
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Lieu de naissance
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Dunkerk
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Couverture temporelle
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late 18th / early 19th century
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Biographie
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An optician and maker of physics aparatus Hæring may have been a native of Dunkerque or have worked there for a period.1 His demonstration instruments for the physical sciences were specifically modelled upon those of Nollet and Sigaud de la Fond. At the 1806 Exhibition he received an 'honourable mention' for 'telescopes of the same size as those of Dollond, found very good' and for a well executed air pump.2 At the 1819 exhibition he received an honourable mention for 'a very good achromatic telescope'. On a gregorian telescope (pc) and combined barometer and thermometer he described himself as 'Opticien du Roi de Wurtembourg'.3 Hæring seems to have created a cabinet of curiosities for Antide Janvier reports seeing a planetary clock by Castel in his shop and notes that ‘This artist rarely misses acquiring curious objects of all kinds in the trade.'.4
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Notes biographiques
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1 A graphometer signed by him at Dunkirk is in a private a collection.
2 Rapport…, 155. For a large graphometer with telescopic sights supplied to the Génie Militaire and used at Dunkirk, see Randier 24. 7. 88 lot.
3 The kingdon of Wurtemburg was created by Napoleon in 1806, whgen its ruler Duke Frederick II becamez King Frederick I. He was succeeded by William in 1816. Since the telescope carrying this inscription has the Palais Royal address it must date from after 1815, or from after 1807 when the Triibunat left the Palais Royal.
4 Cette artiste manqué rarement d’acquérir dans le commerce les objets curieux en tous genres’. Antide Janvier, Etrennes chronométriques… pour 1811, Paris 1810, 278.
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Bibliographie
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Catalogue de differentes pièces de physique sur l'éléctricité et sur les arts d'après les élémens de MM. l'Abbé Nollet et Sigaud de la Fond, etc, qui se fabriquent chez HÆRING, Ingénieur en Istrumens de Physique et d'Optique, palais du tribunat, no 65, entre le Café de Foi et le Théatre de Mlle Montansier, à Paris, Paris, 1790
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Palais du Tribunat, galerie de Pierre 63 Paris Almanach du Commerce
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Identifiant
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110
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