Fourdrinier
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Nom
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Fourdrinier
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 17th century
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Biographie
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An instrument-maker who sold various instruments including a graphometer to Jacques Rohault.1 He is probably to be indentified with the engineer who worked on the pumps for Versailles.2 A graphometer by him is known and a gnomonic instrument is recorded.3
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Notes biographiques
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1 McClaughlin & Picolet 16.
2 Guiffrey i, 825, 841, 896, 913 & 976.
3 Webster & Webster ii 84. The graphometer, once in the Findlay Collection (lot 240), is now in the Adler Planetarium after passing through the Pontet (1968) and Webster collections.
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Identifiant
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1665
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ark:/18469/1sxrx