ABSTRACT

From 1840, despite the obstacles, his essays and inventions continued. Polygraphy was at the inception of his experiments aimed at obtaining inimitable paper for banks in 1842. Five years later, Hercule Florence described the “Use of Types-Syllables.” In a leaflet created by Florence himself, he drew the architectonic details of this new “Order”: intercolumniation, capitals, pillars, pediments, and so on, which demonstrate the evolution of vegetation up to its application in a “Brazilian acclimation of classical architecture.” That leaflet contains the following sentence on the cover: “Pour l’Académie Royale des Sciences à Turin” [to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Turin]; its date, December 10th, 1878. In 1855, for the first and only time, Florence went back to Europe where, after more than 30 years, he met his family members. At that time, his life had experienced a new twist after his marriage to Carolina Krug.