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   Besson
   Jacques
   J. B. ;
   
   
   1540 in Briançon, France OR in Grenoble, France
   1576
   England (emigration in 1572 after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre)
   
   
   
   France
   J. B.: Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum (1571-21 & Lyon 1578) ; De absoluta ratione extrahendi olea et aquas e medicamentis simplicibus (1559) ;
   King Charles IX of France ("master of the King's Engines") ;
   copper engraver ->René Boyvin (c. 1525-1580 or 1598, not 1625 as sometimes estimated) ; Jacques‏ ‎Chouet (c. 1550-1xxx) ;
   technical drawing
   www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/HST/Besson/besson.htm
   ; www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/HST/Besson/besson-introduction.htm ; www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/63088/Jacques-Besson
   A. Keller: A Mss. Version of J. B.'s Book of Machines, in: On Pre-Modern Technology & Science, ed. by Bert S. Hall & Delno C. West. Malibu, CA 1976: 75-103 ; Denise Hillard: J. B. et son Théâtre des instrumens mathém., in: Rev. franç. de l'Histoire du Livre 22(1979): 5-38 & 30 (1981): 47-69 ;
   Further Place of Activity: Switzerland. French Protestant inventor, mathematician & philosopher, chiefly remembered for his popular treatise on machines, since 1559 active in Geneva, since 1562 in Villeneuve-de-Berg, France.
   100170473
   
   


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