Museo Galileo
italiano
Virtual Museum
Jacques Canivet
?-1774

Parisian craftsman active in the second half of the eighteenth century. Grandson of Claude Langlois (18th C.), 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.