BRAILLE, Louis (1809 – 1852)
1809 – 1852
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Henri Thiriat · Original publication: (in French) (1887) La Nature: revue des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts et à l'industrie , 15, G. Masson, p. 20 Direct link: alamy.com · Public domain
1829 CE
#8925
Procede pour écrire les paroles, la musique et le plain-chant au moyen de points, a l’usage des aveugles et dispose pour eux.
This large quarto volume of 4 preliminary leaves and 32 pages included the first presentation of the Braille system of printing and reading for the blind, which represents letters and numbers by combinations of six do…
1837 CE
#5851
Procéde pour écrire au moyen des points.
Braille, himself blind, modified the system of elevated points first suggested by Charles Barbier in 1820 for enabling the blind to read. In 1837 he added symbols for mathematics and music to his six dot system.