Hæring
Contenu
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Nom
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Hæring
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Lieu de naissance
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Dunkirk
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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 (Häring) may have been a native of Dunkerk 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 on a combined barometer and thermometer he described himself as 'Opticien du Roi de Wurtembourg'.3 Hæring seems to have had a collection of curiosities for Janvier notes seeing a planetary clock by Castel in his shop and adds that 'this artist rarely misses acquiring in the trade curious objects of all kinds'.4
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Notes biographiques
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1 A graphometer signed by him at Dunkirk is in a private collection.
2 Rapport…, 155. For a large graphometer with telescopic sights supplied to the Génie Militaire and used at Dunkerk, see Randier 24.7. 88 lot.
3 The kingdon of Wurtemburh was created by Napoleon in 1806 when its ruler, Duke Frederick II, became King Frederick I. He was succeeded by William in 1816. Since the telescope on which this inscription occurs carries the Palais Royal address it probably dates from aftfer 1815, and at least from after 1807 when the Tribunat left the Palais Royal.
4 Castel, secretaire du roi, s’occupa long-tems de semblables machines [planetary clocks], et y dépensa beaucoup d’argent; j’ai vu une portant son nom, dans le magasin de M. Hæring, opticien de S. M. le Roi de Wurtemberg, au Palais-Royal? Cette artiste manqué rarement d’acquérir dans le commerce les objets curieux en tous genres’. Etrennes chronométriques…, 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'Abé Nollet et Sigaud de la Fond, etc, qui se fabriquent chez HÆRING, Ingénieur en Instrumens 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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63, palais Royal Paris Catalogue
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63, Palais du Tribunat Paris
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Identifiant
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1249
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