Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Alexis Magny

From Graces Guide

French optician, clockmaker, scientific instrument maker.

Born in Namps-au-Mont, near Amiens, 1712.

1751-4 He made a number of very elaborate microscopes of the type designed by the Duc de Chaulnes.

For more information, see 'Scientific Instruments of the 17th & 18th Centuries and their Makers' by Maurice Daumas[1].


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Sources of Information

  1. 'Scientific Instruments of the 17th & 18th Centuries and their Makers' by Maurice Daumas, translated by Dr Mary Holbrook, Portman Books, 1972, pp.266-7