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Philippe Danfrie

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17: 92:; d. Paris, 1604) was appointed Controller-General of effigies in 1591. On his appointment it was claimed that he had demonstrated great skill in modelling portraits in wax and engraving puncheons. His most famous and only signed medal (e.g. London, BM) is cast rather than struck and celebrates the victory of 66:, Philippe Danfrie was also an engineer and inventor of scientific instruments. Active in the second half of the sixteenth century, he built globes, astrolabes, and clocks. He invented a typeface that he used in his published writings. These include: 145:
A. J. Turner, "Paper, Print, and Mathematics: Philippe Danfrie and the Making of Mathematical Instruments in late 16th century Paris", in C. Blondel, et al. (eds.), Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments (London and Paris, 1989),
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in metal and paper, as well as a type-cutter, engraver, minter of coins and medals, publisher and author. Much is known about Danfrie's life and activities. He is probably best known as designer of the surveying instrument known as the
55:. As Engraver-General of the French coinage from 1582, he provided the puncheons from which the dies used in every mint in France were taken. He also produced a number of medals (e.g. London, 51:
in 1558–60 and later with Pierre Haman and Jean Le Royer. He also made mathematical instruments, globes and astrolabes and dies for marking bookbindings. In 1571 he cut his first dies for
198: 162: 16: 47:. Danfrie went to Paris in the 1550s and set up as an engraver of letter punches. He produced a number of books in partnership with 193: 188: 72:
Traicte de l'usage du Trigometre, avec le quel on peut facilement mesurer sans subiection d'Arithmetique
28: 178: 183: 8: 93: 117: 129: 120:(March 2020). "Danfrie Reconsidered. Philippe Danfrié's (d. 1606) Civilite Types". 97: 56: 48: 172: 133: 59:) commemorating the events of the first fifteen years of Henry IV's reign. 40: 33: 63: 165:
in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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the elder (about 1532 – 1606) was a designer and maker of
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mathematical instruments
graphometer
Cornouaille
Brittany
Richard Breton
jetons
British Museum
Paris Mint
Paris
Henry IV
Duke of Savoy
Vervliet, Hendrik D L
doi
10.1093/library/21.1.3
Danfrie the Younger
Categories
1530s births
1606 deaths
16th-century French engravers
16th-century French scientists
French scientific instrument makers

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