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Last Name Finé / Fine / Finaeus

Given Name Oronce / Orontius

alt. Names O. F. ; Oronce / Orontius Finnaeus / Finaeus / Fine / Finé

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Year born 1494 in Briançon, France

Year died 1555

Place of death Paris

Father's occupation physician

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Education studies medicine at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, (Bakkalaureats1522)

Country of Activity France

Worked for woodcut illustrator in book-editions of Sacrobosco (Tractatus de Sphaera) and Georg Peuerbach (Theoricae novae planetarum) ; De mundi sphaera (1542) ; Protomathesis (1532) ; A map of France (1525) ;

Patronage Antoine Sylvestre, Professor at the Collège de Montaigu ; Collège Royale (prof. of mathematics since 1531)

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Techniques astronomical, mathematical,a nd geometric diagrams and woodcut ;also cartographic map-making

Sample(s) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map-heart-054.jpg ; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doppelherzf%C3%B6rmige_Weltkarte_1531.jpg

Archival sources http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/fine.html

Published sources E. Poulle in Dictionary of Scientific Biography ; Alexander Marr (Herausgeber) The Worlds of Oronce Fine. Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France (Donington, Lincolnshire 2009) ; Richard P. Ross: Studies on O.F., Diss., Columbia Univ. 1971 ; L. Gallois: O. F. gallico geographo (Paris 1890) ; Focus 1993: 675f.

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