Jean Anisson

Jean Anisson (1642 - 1740) was a Imprimeur and Libraire French. He was director of the royal printing works of the Louvre.

In June 1675, the king required of the Academy of Science “ to examine the means of making a treaty of mechanics, with an exact description of all the machines useful to all arts and trades of which one is useful oneself now in France and in all Europe ”. This work was entrusted to Jacques Buot and did not exceed the stage of a treaty of mechanics in two parts.

In 1692, the abbot Bignon takes again the project and is surrounded:

of a group of three specialists named by the king (P.Sébastien, Jaugenon and Filleau of the Billets)
an engraver (Simonneau)
a “consultant” (Anisson)
a technical adviser (Granjon), engraver of punches and matrices

Their work marked the beginning of the Description of Arts and Métiers, they imagined the model of the boards which were to give later the Encyclopédie of Diderot.

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