Lot n° 138
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800 - 1200
EUR
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: 3 100EUR
Long beech bench in moulded and carved beech wood, the belt - Lot 138
Long beech bench in moulded and carved beech wood, the belt moves, it rests on 8 arched legs. (restoration, some feet replaced).
Stamped N. Blanchard.
Nicolas Blanchard received his master's degree in 1738.
Louis XV period.
Coral-stamped wool velvet upholstery.
H. :43 cm L. : 212 cm, P. : 41 cm.
Extraordinary and extremely rare Celestial Globe of Father Reginald Outhier
French ecclesiastical scholar and scientist 1694/1774 "Un Franc comtois Célèbre"
Réginald Outhier made his first classes at the college of Pulligny then at Dole. Admitted to the seminary of Besançon in 1714 at the age of twenty, he was ordained priest at the end of 1717 and exercised his ministry in the village of Montain.
While being a country priest, he began important work in astronomy and watchmaking, was interested in mathematics, mechanics, geodesy and surveying. Noticed by Jacques Cassini, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences through his writings, he became a member a few years later.
In 1726, at the age of 32, he imagined the "moving globe" where the movements of the moon and the sun are represented, thus allowing us to visualize the moments when eclipses of both the moon and the sun can occur. The globe and its clockwork movement were made by his friend Jean Baptiste Cattin de Besançon, one of the greatest watchmakers in Franche-Comté, and then presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences by its designer in 1727.
The object received much praise and its author "thanked for so much intelligence and skill". On December 1, 1731 Reginald Outhier was received at the Academy of Sciences. That day he became scientific correspondent for Jacques Cassini, the greatest French astronomer of the time, who tried to convince him to work with him on the future Grande Carte de France. He soon gave up, preferring to take care of his own work.
This globe was bought by King Loui
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