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    Jean Senebier (25 May 1742 – 22 July 1809) was a Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist. He was chief librarian of the Republic of Geneva. A pioneer...
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    creating adequate ventilation. In order to analyse the air, he worked with Jean Senebier, another Geneva scientist who was researching this question with regards...
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    acid) by light, first noted by Jean Senebier in 1782. The photochemistry of these processes, which has been studied by Jean-Louis Marignier of Université...
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    including Jan Baptist van Helmont, Joseph Priestley, Jan Ingenhousz, and Jean Senebier. For the several decades following publication of Saussure's book, his...
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    that could cause it to revive a mouse in a matter of hours. In 1796, Jean Senebier, a Swiss pastor, botanist, and naturalist, demonstrated that green plants...
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  • academic (d. 1780) 1714 – Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797) 1742 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist (d. 1809) 1758 – André Masséna, French...
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    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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    (born 1985), footballer, over 200 club caps and 57 for Switzerland Jean Senebier (1742–1809), pastor and voluminous writer on vegetable physiology Liberato...
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    Lasalle, French cavalry general (killed in battle) (b. 1775) July 22 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (b. 1742) August 8 – Ueda Akinari, Japanese...
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    attraction between dust grains in a dusty plasma. The Genevan naturalist Jean Senebier, writing thirty years after Fatio's death, declared that This man who...
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  • Giovanni Antonio Scopoli Berthold Carl Seemann Prideaux John Selby Jean Senebier Nicolas Charles Seringe Martín Sessé y Lacasta John Adolph Shafer George...
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    1815) April 28 – Henry Dundas, British statesman (d. 1811) May 6 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (d. 1809) June 25 – Johann Schweighäuser, German...
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    1815) April 28 – Henry Dundas, British statesman (d. 1811) May 6 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (d. 1809) June 25 – Johann Schweighäuser, German...
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    Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure in 1804 and backed up by the experiments of Jean Senebier (1742-1809). The subject garnered enough interest in the scientific...
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  • materialism) that dot here and there the Dictionary... According to Jean Senebier, Mouchon received for this work, which probably required him paring...
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  • Sàrl, a Swiss limited company, domiciliated at c/o Comatrans SA, rue Jean-Sénebier 4, 1205 Genève, Switzerland. ECO OIL ENERGY Sàrl has a share capital...
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  • candle. Jan Ingenhousz noted the factors of sunlight and green leaves, Jean Senebier noted the necessity of "fixed air" (carbon dioxide), Nicolas Théodore...
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  • C. Semple (born 1947) Sendtn. – Otto Sendtner (1813–1859) Seneb. – Jean Senebier (1742–1809) Senghas – Karlheinz Senghas (1928–2004) Senn – Gustav Alfred...
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    Michel (2010). "Jean Senebier: de l'astro-météorologie au prévisionnisme empirique en passant par la météorologie instrumentale" [Jean Senebier: from astro-meteorology...
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  • University Press. p. 40. Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire Hist. et crit. Jean Senebier, Hist. littéraire de Genève (1786) Nouvelle Biog. gen. (1857).  This...
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  • Wyttenbach (1748-1830), pastor and naturalist. He is also related to Jean Senebier (1742-1809), pastor, botanist and librarian of Geneva, La Chenal and...
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    Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 8. Senebier, Jean (1786). Histoire Littéraire de Geneve. Geneve [Geneva, Switzerland]:...
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    Mme. Karl Hillebrand. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 82. Lives by J Senebier (Geneva, 1801), by Cuvier in the Biographie universelle, and by A. P. de...
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    Pierre Bayle, Dictionary, v. 193-195. Nicéron, Mémoires, xxix. 35 J. Senebier, Hist. littéraire de Genève, ii. 191 sqq., Geneva, 1786 Lichtenberger,...
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  • Ledenbestand (Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum). Retrieved 3 May 2020. "J. Senebier", KNAW Historisch Ledenbestand (Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum)...
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  • Luc devoted themselves mainly to questions of physics in the Alps, while Sénebier, the biographer of Saussure, was more known as a physiologist than as a...
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    Leipzig edition of 1740. Lists of his other learned works may be found in Senebier's Hist. litt. de Genève, vol. ii., and in Nicéron's Mémoires, vol. xvii...
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