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Last Name Fortin

Given Name Jean Nicolas

alt. Names J. N. F. ;

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Year born 1750 in Mouchy-la-Ville in Picardy,Northern France

Year died 1831

Place of death Paris

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Education trained as engineer and mechanician

Country of Activity France

Worked for In 1776 Fortin produced "Atlas céleste de Flamstéed", a revised and updated edition of Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis (celestial atlas), at about 1/3 of the original scale and in French, supervised by stronomers Le Monnier and Messier, from the Observatoire Royale in Paris,

Patronage Academie Royale des Sciences (Royal Academy of Sciences) in Paris; employed by the King and the Royal family for producing globes & spheres

Collaborators Pierre-Charles Le Monnier, F. Pasumot, and Nicholas Louis de Lacaille for 2nd ed. of Flamsteed's atlas; 3rd ed. updated by Jérome de Lalande & Pierre Méchain

Techniques astronomical, topographical, and geographical copperplate engraving ; cartographic & astronomical map-making ;

Sample(s) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XA8OAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=twopage&q&f=false ;

Archival sources www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901482.html ; books.google.co.uk/books?id=rySr84jox_AC&pg=PA548#v=onepage&q ; messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/fortin.html

Published sources Nick Kanas: Star Maps: History, Artistry, Cartography (New York 2007: 176) ;

other French maker of scientific instruments mostly famous for his barometers, precision balances for Lavoisier, Gay-Lussac, Dominique François Jean Arago & Pierre Dulong, etc., cf. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FaAYfJYVNXQC&pg=PA234#v=onepage&q&f=false

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