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Besson, Jacques (1510 - 1576)


 
French mathematician and engineer

Besson wrote one of the first books with illustrations of machines and mechanisms, which survived as printed matter. In his "Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum" he has already presented a thread cutter with tool carriage. He stressed the mathematical foundations of mechanics and tried to bring the reader closer to the general theory, based on his inventions.
   
variant spelling:
Besson, Jacques; ; Bessoni, Iacopo; Bessonus, Jacobus; Bessoni, Jacopo; Besson, Jakob; Bessonius, Jacobus
   
Curriculum vitae  
* 1510 Grenoble (?) born
1557 Lausanne Builder of a pumping station
1559 Genf Teacher of Mathematics
1562 Villeneuve-de-Berg Pastor of the church
1564 Lyon Teacher of Mathematics
1567 Orleans Teacher of Mathematics
1572 England Emigration to the St. Bartholomew's Day in France
† 1576 England (?) died
Collections
Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780
Literature
 
thumbnail of2103009 Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum
Author: Besson, Jacques
Published: 1578
thumbnail of2104009 Theatrvm oder Schawbuch/|| Allerley Werckzeug|| vnd Rüstungen/ des Hochver-||stendigen Sinnreichen Mathematici,|| Iacobi Bessoni, auß dem Del-||phinat ; Mit einer augenscheinlichen Erklerung|| Francisci Beroaldi, auff alle vnd jede|| Figuren:|| Desgleichen mit nottwendigen vnd nutzlichen/|| ... Ver||mehrungen/ gebessert vnd jllustrirt: Durch Iulium|| Paschalem, einen Messanischen vom|| Adel.|| Vnd nun letztlich auß der Latinischen vnnd Fran-||tzösischen Sprach in die Hochteutsche Sprach|| verdolmetschet
Author: Chouet, Jacques (Ed.); Besson, Jacques
Published: 1595
no fulltext found Il Theatro de gl'instrumenti e machine
Author: Besson, Jacques
Published: 1582
thumbnail of4006009 Theatre des instruments Mathematiques et Mechaniques
Author: Besson, Jacques
Published: 1578
 
Secondary literature
 
thumbnail of1570009 Beiträge zur Geschichte des Maschinenbaues
Author: Beck, Theodor
Published: 1899
thumbnail of985009 Studienmaterial zur Vorlesung Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften/Maschinenwesen: Von den Anfängen bis zur Herausbildungsperiode (1850)
Author: Mauersberger, Klaus
Published: 1983
thumbnail of1038009 Zur Entwicklung des Experimentalwesens in den Technikwissenschaften mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Materialprüfung innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Maschinenwesens, in: Dresdener Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften
Author: Mauersberger, Klaus
Published: 1984
no fulltext found Das innere Auge. Von der Kunst des Ingenieurs
Author: Ferguson, Eugene S.
Published: 1993
no fulltext found A history of mechanical inventions
Author: Usher, Abbott Payson
Published: 1988
no fulltext found Franz Reuleaux - Contributions to 19th C. Kinematics and Theory of Machines, in: Applied mechanics reviews
Author: Moon, Francis S.
Published: 2003
no fulltext found The Mind's Eye - Nonverbal Thought in Technology, in: Science
Author: Ferguson, Eugene S.
Published: 1977
no fulltext found Men and machines ; an informal history, in: Machine design
Author: Denavit, Jaques; Hartenberg, Richard Scheunemann
Published: 1956
no fulltext found A theatre of machines
Author: Keller, Alexander Gustav
Published: 1965
no fulltext found Labour, science and technology in France, 1500 - 1620
Author: Heller, Henry
Published: 1996
no fulltext found The Missing Years of Jacques Besson, Inventor of Machines, Teacher of Mathematics, Distiller of Oils, and Huguenot Pastor, in: Technology and culture
Author: Keller, Alexander Gustav
Published: 1973
no fulltext found Die Enkel des Archimedes ; Eine etwas andere Kulturgeschichte der Hebezeuge
Author: Barthel, Manfred
Published: 1995
no fulltext found A Historical Perspective of Robotics Toward the Future, in: Journal of robotics and mechatronics
Author: Ceccarelli, Marco
Published: 2001
no fulltext found Vom Wandel der industriellen Welt durch Werkzeugmaschinen ; Eine kulturgeschichtliche Betrachtung der Fertigungstechnik
Author: Spur, Günter
Published: 1991
 
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