FORTIN, JEAN NICHOLAS |
France, 1750-1831, MIM NIM PHIM |
Barometers = CNAM, FLG, GMT; Air Pump, 1780 = FLO; Air Pump = CNAM; Spherometer = CNAM; Repeating Circle = CNAM; Balance = WHI. |
the foremost precision instrument maker in Paris of his era, he made chemical apparatus and precision balances for Antoine Lavoisier; developed a portable cistern barometer; Yonge thought he made the Hispanic Society armillary sphere. |
rue Saint Honoré; rue de la Sorbonne; rue de la Montagne-Sainte Geneviève; all in Paris. |
Daumas 1; Brewington 1; Bonelli 1 & 4; Maistrov 4; Brieux 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Italian Inv; J.A. Bennett 2; Middleton 1; Yonge. |
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