The Planimetrica Collection
Jules Dupuit (*1804-†1866)
Fig. 1: The original Roulette de Dupuit, first published in Annales des Ponts et Chaussées in 1844. [2].
Fig. 2. and 3: The improved Roulette de Dupuit. Illustration from E. Vincent; Arpentage, levé des plans et nivellement par les Frères des écoles chrétiennes, Elzear Vincent, Quebec 1875. Internet Archive.
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REFERENCES / NOTES
[1] Ueber das Planimeter von Dupuit Polytechnisches Centralblatt Jahrgang 1845 6. Bd., p.76. Google Books
[2] Annales des ponts et chaussees. Tombe VIII p.122 Google Books
[3] Francois Vatin, Jean-Pascal Simonin, Luc Marco; The Works of Jules Dupuit
Francois Vatin, Jean-Pascal Simonin, Luc Marco. The Works of Jules Dupuit: Engineer and Economist of the French XIXth Century . Luc Marco. Edi-Gestion, 1 (1), 2016, Classical texts in Economics and Management, Luc Marco, 978-2-903628-08-6. <http://ihpm.hypotheses.org/>. <hal-01335642>
HAL Id: hal-01335642 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01335642 Submitted on 14 Jul 2016
[5] https://archive.org/stream/cihm_92095#page/n165/mode/2up
[6] http://www.zeno.org/Lueger-1904/A/Rektifizierinstrumente
[7] http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Kurvenmesser
[8] http://cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?M11123/122/100/300/0/0
[9] http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/dupuit.htm
[10] Konstantinos Chatzis; Searching for mathematics within French engineering journals in the 19th century: when nomography meets with Annales des Ponts et Chaussées, IFSTTAR/LATTS (CNRS/Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/Univ. Marne-la-Vallée).
[11] Note: But Dupuis' was not the first chartometer, see Hermann Pieper's chartometer in: Der Oldenburgische Planimeter verbessert und beschrieben, Lüneburg 1825 [SLUB]