Dalencé, Joachim

1. Dates

Born: France, 1640

Died: France, 1707

Dateinfo: Birth Uncertain

Lifespan: 67

2. Father

Occupation: Physician

Surgeon to the king.

I assume prosperous.

3. Nationality

Birth: France

Career: France

Death: France

4. Education

Schooling: unknown.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic by assumption.

His father was a Jansenist.

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Astronomy, Physics

7. Means of Support

Primary: Governmental Position

1663, a royal secretary and counsellor, purchased, salaried positions.

1685-8, moved to the Netherlands where he purchased books and art works for the royal collections. I am uncertain how to list this. It could be seen as patronage, but I will include it under the governmental position.

8. Patronage

Type: None

His father, surgeon to the king, purchased for him his position as secretary and cousellor. But this is not patronage.

9. Technological Involvement

Type: Instruments

He made serious suggestions about thermometers.

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

He served as an intermediary between Oldenburg and Huygens, and the between the Académie and Huygens, and was in contact with Leibnitz.

Sources

1. Nouvelle biographie generale, I (Paris, 1852), col. 786. [ref. CT143.H6] W.E.R. Middleton, A History of the Thermometer.
2. Nothing of a biographical nature.
3. M. Daumas, Les instruments scientifiques . . .
4. Nothing of a biographical nature.
5. There is just not much on this guy, even in 18th century encyclopedic sources.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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