Macquart (Maquard, Macard, Henry
Contenu
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Nom
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Macquart (Maquard, Macard, Henry
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Couverture temporelle
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1660-post 1720
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Biographie
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Free of the Founders' Corporation 23 November 1685 as a 'Marchand Fondeur suivant la Cour'(1), Macquart had been trained by Pierre Sevin whose stock he eventually purchased( 2). In 1688 he made a quadrant for Jean Mathieu de Chazelles and in 1717 the Czar, Peter the Great, visited his shop and purchased two equinoctial dials, a graphometer, a small quadrant and an artillery instrument for 272 livres (3). Several instruments signed 'Macquart à Paris' are known including a silver inclining dial with scales for Siam and Isfahan and a low latitude dial (14°) carrying an unidentified coat-of-arms (4), but whether they should be ascribed to Henry or to René (whose relationship, if any, is not known), is indeterminable. He was succeeded by his son-in-law, Michel Cadot at the same sign. Olivier de Rouvray, son,of the drawing master, Gilles de Rouvray, was living in Maquart's house in December 1700 (5).
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Notes biographiques
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1 Augarde 67.
2 Stroup 193.
3 Homet 139, Chazelles used the quadrant for equal altitude observations and latitude determination. Kniatejskaia & Chenakal 251 & 257.
4. Bonhams 24 April 2024, lot 8; Tesseract 90 n° 15
5. AN/MC/ET/XXIV/525, cited fromMIllet 281, n. 62.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Quai des Morfondus; Ile de la Cité, Paris A l'Astrolabe (Augarde 67)
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Identifiant
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171
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