Chauvet Jacques

Contenu

Nom
Chauvet Jacques
Couverture temporelle
4/4 16th century
Biographie
'Lecteur & Professeur és sciences Mathematiques en l'Vniversité de Paris'. In 1585 signed his cosmometre, which he dedicated to Claude de Harville, with the formula 'Jacques Chauvet Mathematicus fecit...', but despite this formulation he probably only designed the instrument which is of coloured printed paper mounted on wood. An example collected by Carrand is preserved with his collections in the Muzeo Nazionale di Barghello, Florence. inv 1171.1
Notes biographiques
1 Miniati 60-62 no 26;
Bibliographie
Instrvction et vsage dv Cosmometre ou instrument vniversel pour les dimensions, tant geometriques que optiques, astronomiques & geographiques, Paris 1585.
Identifiant
1378
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