Haye, Thomas
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Nom
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Haye, Thomas
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Couverture temporelle
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early 18th century
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Biographie
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A member of the Founders' Corporation, although no details of his career within it are known (1), with the Royal Clockmaker Jérôme Martinot, Haye built a mechanised armillary planetarium presented to Louis XIV in February 1701 (2). He is chiefly known for his sun-dials of which several have survived and for sectors (3). A magnificently written manuscript version of his treatise on the former is dedicated to the Duc de Bourgogne and there is another manuscript by him in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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Notes biographiques
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1 Augarde 67.
2 La Sphère Mobile présentée au Roy par Jérome Martinot, Horloger, Valet de Chambre de sa Majesté, Et Thomas Haye Ingenieur & Fabricateur des Instrumens de Mathematique. 28. Février 1701, Paris 1701.
3 But a small surveyor's circle by him, from a private collection, was included in the exhibition 'Couleurs de la Terre, at the Bibliothèque Nationale, October 1998. An universal equinoctial ring dial by him is in the Historisches Museum, Basle. For a survey of what is known about Haye see Turner 2014c.
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Bibliographie
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Regle horaire universelle pour tracer des cadrans solaires sur toutes sortes de plans reguliers, declinans & inclinez. Ouvrage utile aux personnes qui n'ont jamais eu de pratique dans cette science, qui est la plus belle partie des mathematiques. Avec un abregé de la sphère pour donner une connoissance des cercles & meridiens qui la composant, Paris, 1716.
Another issue 1726
Another issue 1731
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Identifiant
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2208
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