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mettre en œuvre

English translation: that he uses to make...

17:09 Apr 15, 2015
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - History / Optical equipment inventions
French term or phrase: mettre en œuvre
Il prend plusieurs patents à partir de 1774 mais, la prestigieuse académie ne cautionne pas la mise au point d’un verre sylleptique de son invention, qu’il met en œuvre dans la fabrication d’un télescope à réflexion.

Is this saying that this person discovered the verre sylleptique (Syllepsis Optica/sylleptsis glasses) in the process of making a reflector telescope?
Delaina
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:33
English translation:that he uses to make...
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Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
New Caledonia
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Summary of answers provided
2 +4that he implemented (in practical terms?)
Jonathan MacKerron
4 +1that he uses to make...
Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
Summary of reference entries provided
William Storer's patent for syllepsis glass (1783)
Charles Davis

  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
that he uses to make...


Explanation:
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Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
New Caledonia
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Used rather than uses.
25 mins
  -> but present tense in the text (présent historique) so depends on the tense used by Delaina for the translation.
neutral  polyglot45: agree with philgoddard about the tense. The "présent narratif" is very rarely used in English but extremely common in French
1 hr
neutral  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: Idem the choice of tense, which should be past. Also, the meaning of "used" could be ambiguous in context (used = utilised; used to = but does no more) and so the choice of prhasing is important too.
1 hr
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
that he implemented (in practical terms?)


Explanation:
one possiblility

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 6

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: "implemented", the usual translation, works fine here, I think.
11 mins
agree  writeaway: with Charles. it's the usual translation found in dicos and there's no reason not to use it
1 hr
agree  Verginia Ophof
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agree  Yolanda Broad
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Reference comments


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Reference: William Storer's patent for syllepsis glass (1783)

Reference information:
"12 December 1783
A new and peculiar method of preparing and making of optick glasses which I called by the name Syllepsis glasses, and also the application thereof to optick instruments in general, particularly tellescopes, microscopes, reading glasses, opera glasses, and spectacles, whereby distinct vision is more readily procured and the sight greatly relieved, and by which said preparation optick glasses are rendered more perfect, and may be applied with greater certainty."
http://www.sis.org.uk/pdf/clercqappendices.pdf

See also
http://home.europa.com/~telscope/Ross/British.patents.telesc...

So he invented this sort of glass and then made a reflector telescope using it.

Charles Davis
Spain
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40
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