Illustration of a clock mechanism from "Récréations mathématiques et physiques" of Jacques Ozanam.
Jacques Ozanam was a French mathematician. He is best known as the author of various mathematical texts and in particular trigonometric tables, as well as texts of cartography and descriptive geometry. He was also interested in mechanics, he dedicated a chapter to mechanics in his volume "Cours de mathématiques".
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, descriptive geometry, theory, teacher, treatizer.