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    Jean-André Deluc or de Luc (8 February 1727 – 7 November 1817) was a geologist, natural philosopher and meteorologist from the Republic of Geneva. He also...
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    is level and marked only by tiny impacts. The crater is named for Jean-André Deluc, an 18th-century Swiss geologist and physicist. By convention these...
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  • Jean-André is a French masculine given name. It may refer to: Jean-André Cuoq (1821–1898), French philologist Jean-André Deluc (1727–1817), Swiss geologist...
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    the eighteenth century when a series of Genevan scientists such as Jean-André Deluc, Horace Bénédict de Saussure or Marc-Auguste Pictet climbed to the...
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  • John Dalton Robert Davies-Jones William Morris Davis Igor Delijanić Jean-André Deluc Charles A. Doswell III Heinrich Wilhelm Dove V. Walfrid Ekman Kerry...
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  • William Charles Wells (born 1757), American physician. November 7 – Jean-André Deluc (born 1727), Swiss geologist. December 15 – Abate Giovanni Battista...
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    l'Hygrométrie, 1783). This instrument sparked a bitter controversy with Jean-André Deluc, who had invented a whalebone hygrometer. Instruments invented by Saussure...
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    Jean-Louis de Lolme (1740–1806), lawyer and constitutional writer Jean-André Deluc (1727–1817), geologist, natural philosopher and meteorologist Joël...
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    direct influence of Earth's rotation on wind direction. Swiss scientist Jean-André Deluc published an explanation of the trade winds in 1787 similar to Hadley's...
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    Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley...
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    they contradicted the biblical narrative of Creation. Swiss geologist Jean-André Deluc and the later French naturalist Adolphe Dureau de la Malle were the...
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    signify the boiling point of water, causing much confusion. During 1772 Jean-André Deluc studied the several substances then used in thermometers and concluded...
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    introducing the term Statistics into English. Copley Medal: James Rennell; Jean-André Deluc March 20 – John Farey, English mechanical engineer and technical writer...
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    to non-scientific travellers. Jean-André Deluc devoted himself mainly to questions of physics in the Alps, while Jean Sénebier, the biographer of Saussure...
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    word geology was first used by Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, then by Jean-André Deluc in 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure...
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  • mathematician and watchmaker Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929), zoologist Jean-André Deluc (1727–1817), geologist Paul Dirac (1902–1984), physicist Albert Einstein...
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    event is derived from two different sources, including those from Jean-André Deluc and Déodat de Dolomieu. The former proposed that the continents existing...
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    Wales, heir presumptive to the British throne (b. 1796) November 7 – Jean-André Deluc, Swiss geologist (b. 1727) November 11 – Francisco Javier Mina, Spanish...
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    friendly connected with Jean-André Deluc. Besides philosophy, he studied mathematics under Gabriel Cramer, and physics under Jean-Louis Calandrini. Later...
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    first used technically in publications by two Genevan naturalists, Jean-André Deluc and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, though "geology" was not well received...
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  • with Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure, and knew Marc-Auguste Pictet and Jean-André Deluc. Subsequently, he studied German in Eisenach. In 1788 Watt returned...
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    George III. Lind lived on Park Street, Mayfair and was a neighbor of Jean-André Deluc. Among miscellaneous tasks the King had assigned to Lind, in Jan 1782...
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  • of his friends and associates like Pierre Prévost, Charles Bonnet, Jean-André Deluc, Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope and Simon L'Huillier. They mentioned...
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    1776. p. 13. Retrieved 2009-02-05. August Wilhelm Hofmann copley medal. "Jean Baptiste Boussingault" (PDF). Journal of Nutrition. Archived (PDF) from the...
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    the properties of the dry pile, a form of battery that his mentor Jean-André Deluc helped to develop. The next year he described the first electric clock...
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    1929); Sir Patrick Hastings (until 1952) unknown: James Lind unknown: Jean-André Deluc "Park Street and Culross Street: Introduction - British History Online"...
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  • Delporte (1882–1955) WGPSN Deluc 55°01′S 2°59′W / 55.02°S 2.98°W / -55.02; -2.98 (Deluc) 45.69 1935 Jean-André Deluc (1727–1817) WGPSN Dembowski...
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    de Saussure identified the rocks as granite from the Alps in 1779. Jean-André Deluc later described the two rocks as part of a larger group of 24 erratics...
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    times, if not earlier. Several scholars, such as Albanis Beaumont, Jean André Deluc and John Antony Cramer around 1800, and later the historian Theodor...
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  • James Wilby as Sydney Carton Xavier Deluc as Charles Darnay Serena Gordon as Lucie Manette John Mills as Jarvis Lorry Jean-Pierre Aumont as Dr. Alexandre Manette...
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