Prin, Georges
Contenu
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Nom
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Prin, Georges
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Date de mort
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1959
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Couverture temporelle
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1/2 20th century
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Biographie
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Scion of a Lorraine family, Prin was the pupil and successor, in 1910, of P. Gautier (1). A copy of the third edition of Bion's treatise on instruments, presented to Prin in 1911 by the optician Chevalier (qv) is known in a private collection. He exhibited a range of instruments in an exhibition at the Observatoire de Paris arranged to accompany the Conférence Internationale de l'Heure in 1912 (2). These included a recording chronograph and a micrometer for a photograpbic equatorial instrument destined for Bucarest Observatory, a recording micrometer which had been made for the Observatory at Cadix, and a coelostat with a 50cm mirror by A. Jobin (qv ) made for Meudon Observatory (2). In the mid-1940s he merged his business with that of Epy & Jacquelin, succcessors to the Secretan business (? via Mailhat). Instruments by Prin are illustrated in Danjon & Couder, five instruments by him are preserved in the Besançon Observatory and a telescope in the Lycée Jules Haag, Besançon. Among his friends in Paris was the noted horologist Edouard Gélis. Both men were dedicated collectors of the antiquities of their respective trades and formed notable collections (3).
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Notes biographiques
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1. Note on his letterhead, Nice Observatory archives..
2. Conférences…heure, 278
3. A part of this collection was sold in two auctions in Paris by Me. Paul Renaud (7 April 1987) and Chayette - Calmels 4 June 1987). Clocks, watches a surveying circle were donated to the Musée d'Arts Précieux Paul Dupuy, Toulouse shortly before 2016, see b.masson-blogpolitique.over-blog.com .
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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56, Bd Arago Paris
1959: 10, rue Mesnil, Paris 16e (domicile)
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Identifiant
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496
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