Lot no. 393
Jacques CANIVET.
Graphometer with brass pinnules. Signed Canivet à La Sphère à Paris 1770.
18th century.
14 x 24 cm.
Jacques Canivet, active from 1743 to 1774, engineer to the King and to the Royal Academy of Sciences, signed "à la sphère" on the Quai de l'Horloge in Paris from 1747. Louis XV commissioned a mathematics kit from him as a gift for Leonhard Euler.
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