[PW] Re: Jean Baptiste Denoville

[Dennis Lien]

Negative evidence: I also draw a blank on WorldCat, RLIN, the
World Biographical Index from Saur (online version), and
INDEX BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICUS NOTARUM HOMINEM (print tool).  I
also searched several possible spelling variants including
just "noville" and "de noville" (and "du noville" and so on
and on...).  The WBI lets one play all sorts of limiter games,
so I tried matching any one with "Jean Baptiste" or just
"Baptiste" as part of their name who was also coded as a
"mathematician" or "navigational writer" as occupation;
still nothing.

Good it be a pseudonym ("John the Baptist of No Town"??),
with his book (if it does/did exist) published under
his real name instead (or vice versa)?  For that
matter, even if he wrote such a book, do we know that
it was publsihed?

There was an 1808 TRAITE DE NAVIGATION by a J.B.E. duBourguet,
which you probably found, and the "J.B." part of the
name is suggestive, but it's probably too late a
publication in any event.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu


At 09:01 PM 7/11/2006, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I am relaying this request in hopes that your resources will be equal
>to the task. I drew a blank at the Bodleian and the British Union
>   index on the author and title as given.
>
>Regards
>
>
>Brian Whatcott
>
>
> >List-ID: history of scientific instruments <rete.maillist.ox.ac.uk>
> >Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:06:22 +0100
> >Thread-Topic: Jean Baptiste Denoville
> >
> >From: "Martin Lunn" <Martin.Lunn at ymt.org.uk>
> >To: <rete at maillist.ox.ac.uk>
> >
> >
> >Hello
> >
> >I hope this is not too far away from normal requests. Does anyone
> >know anything about Jean Baptiste Denoville.? He wrote Le traite de
> >navigation de Jean Baptiste Denoville, I am not sure of the period
> >of his life but we have a picture of him in York in 1760.
> >
> >Kind Regards
> >Martin Lunn
> >Curator of Astronomy
> >Yorkshire Museum
> >York
>
>
>Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
>
>
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