The Trumpet and Lyre in Jacques Besson’s Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinum
Jacques Besson was born a protestant around 1540 in Grenoble. In 1559 he published an alchemical book about how to extract oils and waters from simple compounds. In 1567 his Le Cosmolabe described an extraordinary invention that could be used for navigation, surveying, cartography and astronomy. Two years later, on his visit to Orléans, Charles […]
