Jean Pigeon

Jean Pigeon d'Osangis (born 1654, Donzy; died 1739) was a French physicist and mathematician, noted for the construction of planispheres.[1][2]

He was also a globe maker.[3] In the University of Wrocław's map collection, there survives one of only two remaining examples of a 7-cm terrestrial pocket globe that Pigeon published in 1717.[4]

He was the father of Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon.

He was a member of the Paris Society of Arts.[5][6]

  1. ^ Denis Diderot (1999). Jacques the Fatalist and His Master. Oxford University Press. pp. 245. ISBN 978-0-19-283874-2.
  2. ^ "Jean Pigeon". Museo Galileo. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  3. ^ Beaudouin, Denis; Brenni, Paolo; Turner, Anthony. "Pigeon d'Onsangis, Jean". Dictionary of precision Instrument-makers and related craftsmen. Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL). Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  4. ^ Szykuła, Krystyna (2005). "Remarkable Globes in the Wrocław (Breslau) University Library's Map Collection". Globe Studies (51/52): 103–108. JSTOR 23993599.
  5. ^ Lloyd Strickland (28 March 2018). The Philosophical Writings of Prémontval. Lexington Books. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4985-6357-4.
  6. ^ Paola Bertucci (2017). Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France. Yale University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-300-22741-3.