Biography:Pierre-Louis Guinand
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| Born | 20 April 1748 La Sagne, Canton of Neuchâtel |
| Died | 13 February 1824 (aged 75) Les Brenets, Canton of Neuchâtel |
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Pierre-Louis Guinand (1748–1824) was a Swiss lens maker.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] who in the late 1700s came up with a breakthrough for making better quality and larger glass, and in time went on to teach a young Fraunhofer at Joseph von Utzschneider's (1763-1840[13]) glassworks, and eventually started his own optical glass works.[14] Guinand would supply glass for the Paris Observatory telescopes and also Cauchoix.[14] He was a pioneer in the manufacture of optical glass for microscopes, telescopes, glasses and other optical instruments.
See also
- Markree Observatory#Pierre-Louis Guinand
References
- ↑ "The precursors: Pierre-Louis Guinand". https://www.cameramuseum.ch/en/discover/permanent-exhibition/the-origins-of-photography/the-precursors-pierre-louis-guinand/.
- ↑ King (1979), pp. 176–9.
- ↑ D. P (1925). "Le Centaire de Pierre-Louis Guinand.". L'Astronomie (Astrophysics Data System) 39: 177. Bibcode: 1925LAstr..39..177D. https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1925LAstr..39..177D. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ↑ "MEMOIR OF THE LATE M. GUINAND". Mechanics Magazine 3. 1824–1825. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68418/page/n305/mode/2up. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ↑ Johnson, Kevin L. (7 February 2002). Bingham, Richard G; Walker, David D. eds. "Historical challenge of large lenses". Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Large Lenses and Prisms 4411: 147. doi:10.1117/12.454883. Bibcode: 2002SPIE.4411..147J. "SPIE Proceedings (Large Lenses and Prisms - London, United Kingdom Tuesday 27 March 2001)".
- ↑ Rastogi, Pramod K. (1 July 1995). "Guest Editorial: Special Section on Optics in Switzerland, Part 1: Federal Institutes of Technology". Optical Engineering 34 (7): 1863. doi:10.1117/12.214186. "One of the first Swiss known to have endeavored in optics production, Pierre-Louis Guinand (1748—1824) was an amateur telescope maker. He was born in La Sagne in the state of Neuchâtel. As good quality flint glass was difficult to obtain at the time, Guinand put himself to the task of producing it. After painstaking searches and trials, he succeeded in producing flawless flint glass of large dimensions.".
- ↑ Reynier, Édouard (1824). "Notice sur feu M. Guinand, opticien" (in fr). Bibliothèque Universelle des Sciences, Belles Lettres, et Arts (Geneva, Paris: Bibliotheque Universelle) 25 (9): 142–158, 227–236. https://books.google.com/books?id=DuJVZu6qGIkC&pg=PA142. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ↑ "Golden Era of Refractors". Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. https://history.aip.org/exhibits/cosmology/tools/tools-refractors.htm. "Between 1784 and 1790, Pierre Louis Guinand, a Swiss craftsman, taught himself the basic skills of glassmaking and began to experiment with optical glass."
- ↑ VIAF 101522483
- ↑ "Guinand l'Opticien (1748 - 1824) aux Brenets: Exposition Guinand l'Opticien - Les Brenets". 9 May 2016. http://fpsi.ch/brenets/brenets.html.
- ↑ "Optical glass". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Optical_glass.
- ↑ "the lens". Society for the History of Astronomy. http://www.craig-telescope.co.uk/lens.html. "Methods of making large disks of flint glass were discovered in the late 18th century by Pierre Louis Guinand (1748–1824), a Swiss optician, who became associated with the German optician and physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer."
- ↑ "Utzschneider und Fraunhofer" (in en). https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp26931/utzschneider-und-fraunhofer.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 King, Henry C. (2003-01-01) (in en). The History of the Telescope. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486432656. https://books.google.com/books?id=KAWwzHlDVksC&pg=PA176.
Bibliography
- King, Henry C. (1979). The History of the Telescope. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.. pp. 176-9, 188-9, 191-2, 196, 204, 252. ISBN 978-0-486-23893-7. https://archive.org/details/historyoftelesco00henr/page/176/mode/2up?q=Guinand.
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