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FOURNIER, PIERRE SIMON (1712-1768)
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See also:FOURNIER, See also:PIERRE See also:SIMON (1712-1768) , See also:French engraver and typefounder, was See also:horn at See also:Paris on the 15th of See also:September 17 t s. Ile was the son of a printer, and was brought up to his See also:father's business. After studying See also:drawing under the painter Colson, he practised for some See also:time the See also:art of See also:wood-See also:engraving, and ultimately turned his See also:attention to the engraving and casting of types. Ile designed many new characters, and his foundry became celebrated not only in See also:France, but in See also:foreign countries. Not content with his See also:practical achievements, he sought to stimulate public See also:interest in his art by the See also:production of various See also:works on the subject. In 1737 he published his Table See also:des proportions qu'il faut observer entre See also:les caracteres, which was followed by several other technical See also:treatises. In 1758 he assailed the See also:title of See also:Gutenberg to the See also:honour awarded him as inventor of See also:printing, claiming it for Schoffer, in his Dissertation sur l'origine et les progres de fart de graver en bois. This gave rise to a controversy in which Schopflin and See also:Baer were his opponents. Fournier's contributions to this debate were collected and re-printed under the title of Traites historiques et critiques sur l'origine de l'imprimerie. His See also:principal See also:work, however, was the See also:Manuel typographique, which appeared in 2 vols. 8vo in 1764, the first See also:volume treating of engraving and type-See also:founding, the second of printing, with examples of different alphabets. It was the author's See also:design to See also:complete the work in four volumes, but he did not live to execute it. He died at Paris on the 8th of See also:October 1768. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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