weaver Ponce Carangeot, and his wife, Liesse Tellier
in a seminary in France; at the age of twenty, he went to Paris where he becomes business manager. studies botany & mineralogy, on the side
France
mineralogist & crystallographer Romé de l'Isle (1736-90): Essai de Cristallographie, Paris 1772 and Cristallographie, 4 vols. 1783
Claude Lhermine & Romé de l'Isle on crystal models ; Marie Dominique Joseph Engramelle & J. J. Ernst: Papillons d'Europe. Peints d'après nature (Paris 1779-92) ;
physical, entomological, and natural drawing ; 448 different types of 3D crystal models, made of terra-cotta
www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/dokumente/8189/ ;
see www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900783.html for his vita & publ.
L. Touret: Crystal models. Milestone in the birth of crystallography & mineralogy as sciences, in: Dutch Pioneers of the Earth Sciences (Amsterdam 2004: 43-58) ; R. Homberg: Some unknown plates in Ernst & Engramelle’s Papillons d’Europe (1779-93), in: J. of Soc. f. Bibliogr.of Natural History 3 (1953) ;
In 1780, A. C. developed the contact goniometer to measure and transfer interplanar angles from natural crystals to terra-cotta models.
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