VERNIER, Pierre (1584 - 1638)

French engineer and instrument-maker who devised the precision measuring scale now named for him.

Pierre Vernier was mathematician and he was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices. In 1580, he was taught science by his father. He later became captain and castellan of the castle at Ornans, for the King of Spain. He was also later councilor and director general of moneys in the County of Burgundy. At Brussels, in 1631, he published, his treatise "La construction, l'usage, et les propriétés du quadrant nouveau de mathématiques". In it he described the ingenious device which now bears his name, the Vernier scale.

variant spelling:
VERNIER, Pierre

Curriculum vitae

* 19.08.1584	Ornans Franche Comté	born
1631		Invented the famous auxiliary scale named after him to facilitate an accurate reading of a subdivision of an ordinary scale.
† 14.09.1638	Ornans Franche Comté	died

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Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780

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VERNIER, Pierre (1584 - 1638)