Grégoire, Jean
Contenu
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Nom
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Grégoire, Jean
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Couverture temporelle
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2/2 17th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Blois - Paris
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Biographie
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is known by a Huygens-type simple microscope (1)and a quadrant (2). He is likely to have been a member of the clockmaking family of Blois, perhaps the younger son of Jean I Grégoire, Antoine (b. 1635), working at Blois from 1662, or a member of the following generation who had moved to Paris. The Grégoire family had commercial connections in Paris from at least 1649.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Christie's 8 July 1999 (Rothschild collection inv N° AR3112) On one face the instrument is engraved with a crowned 'CD' monogramme adapted from the design in Nicolas Verrien, Recueil d'emblèmes, devises, médailles et figures hieroglyphiques…avec leur explications, accompagné de plus de deux mille chiffres fleuronnez, simples, doubles et triples…, Paris 1724 (1st edition 16,,).
2. Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, V10423. Daumas 1953, 112.
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Identifiant
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1859
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