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• Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de — born Feb. 28, 1683, La Rochelle, France died Oct. 17, 1757, Saint Julien du Terroux French physicist and entomologist. He invented the thermometric scale that bears his name (see thermometry); on the Réaumur scale, 0° marks the freezing point of… …   Universalium

• Réaumur , René Antoine Ferchault de — (1683–1757) French entomologist, physicist, and metallurgist Born at La Rochelle in western France, Réaumur traveled to Paris in 1703 and was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences in 1708. He was commissioned by Louis XIV (1710) to compile a …   Scientists

• Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de — (1683 1757)    physicist, naturalist    Considered the father of the French iron and steel industry, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur was born in La Rochelle. He demonstrated that castings can be made into steel by adding metallic iron, and he… …   France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present

• Descriptions des Arts et Métiers — Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l Académie Royale des Sciences was published by the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris between 1761 and 1788. The full series comprises 113 folio volumes plus three… …   Wikipedia