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Jean-François D'Aubuisson De Voisins
Jean-François d’Aubuisson de Voisins (19 April 1769 – 20 August 1841) was a French geologist and mining engineer who also contributed studies in hydrodynamics and hydrology. Life D'Aubuisson was born in Toulouse, the son of a namesake squire and his wife Jeanne-Francoise Dassié. His early education was at the Benedictine College of Soréze from 1779. He moved to the Artillery School, Metz in 1786 and joined military service in 1791, serving six years in Spain. After the war he retired to Freiberg where he taught mathematics and simultaneously studied at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Bergakademie under Abraham Gottlob Werner. He translated Werner's work into French with annotations. He returned to France in 1802 and became an assistant to Jérôme Tonnelier (1751–1819) in 1803. He subscribed to the Wernerian view that basalts were formed by volcanism under the sea and confirmed the views of Jean-Étienne Guettard, Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest, Desmares ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 493,465 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2019 census); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,454,158 inhabitants (2019 census). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 20 French Métropoles, with one of the three strongest demographic growth (2013-2019). Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It hosts the CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST) which is the largest national space centre in Europe, but also, on the military side, the newly created NATO space centre of excellence and the French Space Command and Space Academy. Thales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
