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Your search for "chevalier" yielded 22 entries. Displaying entries 1–22.| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References | Suggest Correction |
| BORDA, JEAN CHARLES, CHEVALIER DE | France, 1733-99, NIM | Reflecting Circles = PMM, PEA-M4082. | improved the reflecting circle in 1787; author. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Brewington 1; Italian Inventory; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER 1 | France, c.1750, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescope = Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Vancouver; Microscopes = WHI (2); Augsburg Sundial = MAR; Hygrometer = D. | Paris. | USNM; Price 12; Brieux 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER 2 | England, fl.1770-91, NIM OIM | Hadley's Quadrant = NMM-S174. | Guernsey, Channel Islands. | Taylor 2(598); NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER 3 | France, MIM | Sundial, round, ivory = POR. | adjustable gnomon. | Portaluppi; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER 4 | France, 1838, OIM PHIM | Stick Barometer, 1838 = D.(1982); Colorimeter = STM. | "Opticien du Roi"; possibly Charles-Louis Chevalier. | Paris. | Moskowitz 110; Antique Collector, April, 1982; RSW. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER 5 | England, c.1700, MIM | Universal Horizontal Sundial = D.(1986). | 3 latitudes, 40°, 45°, 51°30'; 11 English towns for latitude 51°, and Shrewsbury for 52°; surely the work of one of the French Chevaliers, for the English market; date is too early. | Coffeen 12; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER AINE | France, c.1830, PHIM | Dark Mirror = Nouveau Drouot 5/20/88. | Chevalier aîné; "Ingénieur Opticien"; Vincent-Jacques-Louis Chevalier, which see; see also "Vt. Chevalier l'aîné." | No. 69 Quai de l'Horloge au miscroscope achromatique, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER L'AINE PERE ET FILS, VINCENT | France, c.1830, MIM | Drawing Set = D.(1997). | Vincent Chevalier l'aîné père et fils; son was Charles-Louis Chevalier; T.C. | Au Microscope Achromatique, No. 69 Quai de l'Horloge à Paris. | Coffeen 56. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER L'AINE, VINCENT | France, 1770-1841, | Beam Compass Set = D.(1997). | Vincent Chevalier l'aîné; see Vincent-Jacques-Louis Chevalier; sometimes signed "Vt. Chevalier l'aîné" or "Vinc't Chevalier l'aîné." | Paris. | Moskowitz 119; Coffeen 58. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER MAISON | France, 19th Century, OIM PHIM | Thermometer = Versailles 4/17/83; Telescope = D.(1982). | "Ingénieur Opticien." | 4 Place de la Bourse, Paris. | Moskowitz 105; RSW. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER, ARTHUR | France, fl.1859, OIM | Telescope, with stand = D.(1978); Microscopes = AMH, D.(1989). | Dr. Arthur Chevalier; son of Charles-Louis Chevalier; author; T.C.; "Ancienne Maison Chevalier Ingénieur de pere et fils depuit plus d'un siècle, seul successeur"; "opticien"; "Officier de l'Académie"; see A. Chevallier. | Palais Royal 158, Paris. | Belgian Inventory; Richardson Cat.; Calvert 2; Moskowitz 132; RSW. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER, CHARLES | France, c.1750, | father of Louis-Vincent Chevalier. | Paris. | Daumas. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER, CHARLES-LOUIS | France, 1804-59, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Microscopes = NAC, UTR(2), AMH, KEN(6), BIL, Yale U., Cranbrook Institute of Sciences, Mich., etc.; Surveying Level = D.(1975); Solar Microscope = X; Objective Lens = KEN; Cannon Sundial = O-F; Opera Glass = WHI; Camera Lucida = P.C.; etc. | son of Vincent-Jacques-Louis Chevalier; succeeded him in 1841; T.C.; "Ingénieur"; Transylvania College has several philosophical instruments. | Palais Royal 163 (1845); factory at Cour des Fontaines No.1 bis; Palais Royal 158; all in Paris. | Daumas 1; USNM; Dewhirst; Whipple 1; Calvert 2; KEN; Monreal; Nachet; Brieux 3; Moskowitz 110; Purtle; G.L'E. Turner 24; Clay and Court; RSW. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER, L'INGR. | France, MIM | Cannon Sundial = Soth.-LA 6/7/76. | "Opticien du Roi"; possibly Vincent-Jacques-Louis Chevalier, who patented this type, which see. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER, LOUIS | France, c.1780, OIM | oldest son of Louis-Vincent Chevalier; brother of Vincent- Jacques-Louis Chevalier; optician. | Quai de l'Horloge 31, Paris. | Nachet; Moskowitz 119. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER, LOUIS-VINCENT | France, 1734-1804, OIM | father of Louis, Vincent-Jacques-Louis and Nicolas-Marie Chevalier; T.C.; mirror maker; son of Charles Chevalier, which see. | Quai de l'Horloge 31, Paris (1765). | Nachet; Moskowitz 119; Daumas 1; Warner 13. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER, NICOLAS-MARIE | France, d.1807, OIM | youngest son of Louis-Vincent Chevalier. | Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| CHEVALIER, VICTOR | England, MIM | Cannon Sundial = Maidstone Museum; Time Clock Sundial = NMM-D.375. | cannon sundial signed "Ingr. Brevt. Quai de l'Horloge 77 à Paris"; probably misreading for Vincent Chevalier. | Quai de l'Horloge 77, Paris. | Strand Magazine, 1893, pp. 308-18. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER, VINCENT ET CHARLES | France, c.1828, OIM | Microscopes = CRI, UTR, KEN; Camera Lucida = USMA. | Louis-Vincent and Charles-Louis Chevalier. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | Gunther 2; Van Cittert 3; KEN; Warner 13. | suggest correction |
| CHEVALIER, VINCENT-JACQUES-LOUIS | France, 1770-1841, MIM OIM SIM | Compass = D.(1979); Microscopes = Faculté des Sciences, Paris (1820, 1823), KEN(2), NAC, BIL, etc.; Graphometer = P.C.; Surveyor's Compass with telescope = P.C.(1987). | middle son of Louis-Vincent Chevalier; brother of Louis Chevalier; father of Charles-Louis Chevalier; did research on the achromatic microscope; called himself Chevalier l'aîné after death of Louis Chevalier; compass is signed that way; title was "Ingénieur Opticien Breveté"; patented cannon sundial. | 21, 67 and 69 (1830) Quai de l'Horloge, at the Sign of the Achromatic Microscope, Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet; USNM; Purtle; KEN; Moskowitz 119; Paris 1900; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
| LOUVILLE, CHEVALIER DE | see Jacques-Eugène d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |||
| THOMAS, CHARLES XAVIER, CHEVALIER | France, 1785-1870, MIM | Arithmometers = KEN, Christie 12/21/71, Phillips 11/16/88 (o. 1778). | Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar; invented the Arithmometer, a multiplication machine, c.1820; showed in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | Colmar, Alsace; 13 Rue du Helder, Paris. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
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