Maulevaut, Jean
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Nom
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Maulevaut, Jean
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Couverture temporelle
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1712-1720
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Biographie
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A mathematical instrument-maker, married with Henriette Paillard who, as widow, ceded the sign to Claude Langlois before 1728 (1). Maulevaut may have developed a special dialling rule as a manuscript description 'Manière de construire des cadrans à l'usage de la règle de gnomonique de Maulevaut, par deux ouvertures du compas' (2pp with a diagram) is known bound into a copy of Bion's Traité de la Construction et principaux usages des instruments de mathématiques, 3rd edition 1725 (2). An undated broadsheet advertisement is known which places Maulevaut 'Au Cercle Entier' (3). Several instruments by him are known.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Augarde 67, 71.
2 Catalogue librairie Intersigne, December 2015.
3 Librairie Comellas, December 1987.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Quai de l'Horloge Paris Au Niveau (Augarde 67, 71).
Au Cercle Entier (Broadsheet).
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Identifiant
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2734
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