Bloud , Charles 1
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Nom
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Bloud , Charles 1
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 17th century
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Biographie
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The earliest mention of Charles Bloud is in a document of 9 June 1646 when, as ‘faiseur d’instrumens’ he is included in a list of ship-captains, pilots, navigation specialists and others experienced in sea affairs(1). Nothing is known of his origins although if the theory that the typical Dieppe ivory dials originated in Paris (2) be correct then he may derive from that city - perhaps a relation of Pierre Bloud who, living in the Rue de la Saveterie in 1640, was named Horloger du Roi et de la Reine in 1641, or of the Théodore Bloud who married in 1624 and in 1640 was in the Rue St Martin (3).
In 1653 Bloud made an exceptionally large magnetic azimuth dial for Henri II d’Orléans, Duc de Longueville (4), who had strong Normandy connections. This is the form of dial to the invention of which Bloud laid claim by the inscription formula ‘invenit et fecit’. It seems to be the only known dated example of this kind of dial, which may indicate that it was the first such dial to be made public. Married to Marie Marthe Gaudin, he had two children, Charles and Marie. Protestant, by 1684 he had emigrated to Rotterdam where his signature appears on official documents in that year (5). A contemporary account lists the dials produced by Bloud - he seems rarely, if ever, to have made other kinds of instruments - as ‘rares quadrans, dont un s’appelle équinoxial ou universel, un autre azymutal, et un autre silindre’ (6).
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Notes biographiques
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1 Duliris 243-5.
2 Turner (Fr dip dials), 102.
3 Tardy 61.
4 Lloyd 118-9.
5 Mercier 2014, 62 n. 19.
6 Aseline
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Grande Rue, Dieppe
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Identifiant
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258
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