Scanagattty or Scanegatty
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Nom
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Scanagattty or Scanegatty
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 18th century
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Biographie
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A lecture-demonstrator in physics, Scanegatty also sold physical apparatus and other instruments. He was a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen, and of the Société d'Agriculture of the same city. On the 5 October 1788 Arthur Young visited him in Rouen. 'The next morning I called on monsieur Scanegatty, professseur de physique dans la Société Royale d'Agriculture ; he received me with politeness. He has a considerable room furnished with mathematical instruments and models. He explained some of the latter to me that are of his own invention, particularly one of a furnace for calcining gypsum, which is brought here in large quantities from Montmartre'1. He may have had a retail outlet in Lorient as an octant by Gregory and Son London is marked 'Se vend à L'Orient chez Scanagaty'2. The making of balances is also associated with him but without clear evidence (3) A thermometer by him is incorporated in a mantel barometer now in the Wallace Collection (4)..
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Notes biographiques
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1 Young 116. For a handbill advertising his lecture series see Gaskell no 43. His trade card held in the Waddesdon Manor collection is reproduced in the SIS Bulletin cxxxiv, 36
2 Randier 22. 7. 89.
3 Daumas 276.
4 Hughes 80.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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'La petite Bonheur dans la Cour de Pigeons', Rouen
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Identifiant
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395
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