Died 1774 | ||
Jacques Canivet (?-1774) was a French scientific instrument maker.
Parisian craftsman active in the second half of the eighteenth century. Grandson of Claude Langlois (18th century), he succeeded him in 1756 as supplier of scientific instruments to the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris. Mainly produced compasses, graphometers, astronomical quadrants, transit instruments, and parallactic machines.
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