Mossi or Mossy, Félix Jacques Antoine
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Nom
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Mossi or Mossy, Félix Jacques Antoine
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Couverture temporelle
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Late 18th century/early 19th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Société
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Cappy & Mossy (pre 1774).
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Biographie
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A specialist maker of instruments in glass and of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers Mossy, before 1774, was in partnership with his uncleToussaint Cappy (1). An Amontons-type barometer by him is dated 1780, and he supplied a mercury thermometer to Lavoisier for the Académie des Sciences in 1782. Six years later he repaired Prieur's thermometer for the Académie when he described himself as 'Breveté du Roy et de l'Académie Royale des Sciences' (2). In 1803 he was mentioned by Lalande as the maker of his new thermometer with 150 division scale. Some of his thermometers were graduated by Richer (qv ). A supplier to the Académie des Sciences and to the Société Royale de la Médecine, in 1788 Mossy received a brevet as ‘ingénieur du Roi’ (3).
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Notes biographiques
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1. AN. Minutier Centrale xcix, 6 October 1783.
2. Tablettes 1789; titles rehearsed on a portable barometer dated May 1789s, Bremens & Belleville, Lyon, sale 13 December 2015.
3. Arbey 1952.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Quai Pelletier, 'à la Croix d'Or', Paris ( on a barometer dated 1780).
Quai Pelletier, 16, au second Paris (portable barometer dated May 1789)
32, Quai Pelletier au second (thermometer dated 6 Thermidor an 2).
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Identifiant
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1213
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