Jean de Beaugrand (1584 – 22 December 1640) was the foremost
Frenchlineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in
Mulhouse (then part of the
Old Swiss Confederacy), de Beaugrand moved to
Paris in 1581. He also worked as a
mathematician and published works on
geostatics. He is credited with naming the
cycloid. He lived and worked in Paris as an artist until his death in 1640.
References
D Diderot,
Encyclopédie, First edition, Book 4, 596.
George Hanton, French Lineography, Gregory Kline Books, New York, 1927.
H Nathan, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970–1990).
P Humbert, Les Astronomers français de 1610 à 1667, Société d'études scientifiques et archéologiques de Draguignan, Memoires 63 (1942), 1-72.