Fine Oronce
Contenu
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Nom
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Fine Oronce
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Date de naissance
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20 December 1494
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Date de mort
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5 October 1555
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Lieu de naissance
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Briançon
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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1/2 16th century
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Biographie
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The son of a physician, François Fine, who himsef published a treatise on the equatorium in the year of Oronce's birth, and with two uncles, Pierre and Antoine, who were painters, Oronce Fine was familiar from an early age with craftsmanship and mathematics. Ca. 1510 he moved to Paris where, supervised by Antoine Silvestre, professor of literature att the College of Montaigu, he studied at the College of Navarre receiving a B. Med. in 1522. A marginal member of the intellectual circle of Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples, he found employment as an illustrator for Paris printer/publishers, while also teaching mathematics. Perhaps because he practised jucdicial astrology too overtly he was imprisoned for some months in the winter of 1524/5. A flurry of publications in the second half of the decade however re-established his reputation, and in 1530/31 he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in François I's newly founded Collège Royal.
During this period Fine, in parallel with engraving book illustrations and maps, was also producing mathematical devices for sale (1). He states that he presented one of his water clocks to François I (2). Having secured royal patronage, in c. 1535 Fine married Denise Blanche, but his later years were difficult as he struggled to maintain his 'countless brood' of children (six of them survived him) by his teaching, instrument-making, engraving, and an ever lengthening list of publications (3).
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Notes biographiques
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1 A signed sun-dial has survived which is now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. See Brusa; Eagleton 1, Eagleton II. For a straight-line horary quadrant attributed to him, dated 1518, see Coffeen.
2. It is described in Fine's Protomathesis, Paris 1532, part IV 'de solaribus horologiis'.
3. Account based on Hillard & Poulle, Marr.
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Bibliographie
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For Fine's numerous publications see the bibliography given by Hillard & Poulle.
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Identifiant
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2449
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