Antique Scientific Instruments

Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680

Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680

Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680
A fine circa 1680 protractor by Nicholas Bion with an early upside down reverse scale. Lovely signature with spiral flourishes. He was Engineer to the King and author of one of the most important books on scientific instruments of the time: Traite de la construction et principaux usages des instruments de mathematique , first published in Paris in 1709, with many later reprints. Bion worked in Paris at the Quai de lHorloge under the signs Soleil dor and au Quart de cercle. He supplied globes, mathematical instruments, sundials and mechanical devices made to a very high standard.

See final images with his tradecard and. The item "Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680" is in sale since Sunday, February 23, 2020.

This item is in the category "Antiques\Science & Medicine (Pre-1930)\Scientific Instruments\Other Antique Science Equip". The seller is "instrumentumantiques" and is located in Los Angeles, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.


Good Protractor With Reverse Scale By Nicholas Bion Circa 1680