About Jean Pigeon
Lived 1654 – 1739 (aged 84–85). Jean Pigeon was a French physicist.
Jean Pigeon d'Osangis (born 1654, Donzy, Nivernais; died 1739) was a French physicist and mathematician, noted for the construction of planispheres.
He was also a globe maker. In the University of Wrocław's map collection, there survives one of only two remaining examples of a 7-cm terrestrial pocket globe that Pigeon published in 1717.
He was the father of Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon.
He was a member of the Paris Society of Arts.
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Who was Jean Pigeon?
18th century French physicist (1654–1739)
When was Jean Pigeon born?
Jean Pigeon was born in 1654 in Donzy.
When did Jean Pigeon die?
Jean Pigeon died in 1739 in Paris.
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Jean Pigeon was a physicist.
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Jean Pigeon was French.
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