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Yverdon Encyclopedia
The ''Encyclopedia of Yverdon'' (in French: ''Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines'') is an encyclopedia compiled by Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice and published in 58 volumes from 1770 through 1780 in Yverdon-les-Baines, Switzerland. The ''Encyclopedia of Yverdon'' is not as culturally French nor as philosophically skeptical of religion as the work it is based upon, the ''Encyclopédie'' of Diderot and d'Alembert. Due to these differences, the ''Encyclopedia of Yverdon'' was known as the ''Protestant encyclopedia'' and was widely distributed across Northern Europe. Principal contributors The Italian scholar Fortunato de Félice emigrated to Bern, Switzerland, in 1757 and finally resettled in Yverdon, Switzerland, in 1762. To advance his encyclopedia, Félice brought together more than thirty international collaborators. Fifteen of his contributors were Swiss, twelve French, three German, one Italian, and one Irish. They include: * Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Euler
Johann Albrecht Euler (27 November 1734 – 17 September 1800) was a Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician. Also known as ''Johann Albert Euler'' or ''John-Albert Euler'', he was the first child born to the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), who had emigrated or the first timeto Saint-Petersburg on 17 May 1727. His mother was Katharina Gsell (1707–1773) whose maternal grandmother was the famous scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) and whose father was the Swiss Baroque painter Georg Gsell (1673–1740) who had emigrated to Russia in 1716. Katharina married Leonhard Euler on 7 January 1734 and Johann Albert would be the eldest of their 13 children (only 5 of whom survived childhood). In 1754 he became a member of the Berlin Academy. In 1758, he served briefly as director of the Astronomical Calculation Institute (ARI). On Euler's return to St. Petersburg in 1765, he was appointed as the chair of physics at the St. Petersburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Jacques Willermoz
Pierre-Jacques Willermoz (28 August 1735 – 26 June 1799) was an 18th-century French physician and chemist. Biography Pierre-Jacques Willermoz was the son of Claude Catherine Willermoz (1701–1770) and his wife Marguerite Catherine Valentin (born 1710). Among his 12 other siblings were Jean-Baptiste Willermoz (1730–1824), Pierre Willermoz (1734–1793) and Antoine Willermoz (1741–1793). In 1761, Willermoz was appointed professor demonstrator of chemistry at the University of Montpellier but he resigned this chair in 1763 and returned to Lyon, where, on the advice of his friends, he opened a course of chemistry which proved very busy. Having been aggregated to the college of physicians of this city, he continued to devote to scientific research the leisure left to him by the exercise of his art. The Académie des sciences belles-lettres et arts de Lyon, whose records contain three unreleased texts, admitted him in its midst. Bound by a close friendship with the agronom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Portal
Baron Antoine Portal (January 5, 1742 – July 23, 1832) was a French anatomist, doctor, medical historian and founding president of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. Biography Born on January 5, 1742, in Gaillac, he was the eldest of 12 siblings. He studied at the Jesuit college in Albi followed by Toulouse and then attended the medical faculty in Montpellier between 1762 and 1765. In 1766, Portal moved to Paris where he became a teacher of anatomy to the dauphin. In 1769 he became professor of anatomy at the Collège de France and in 1778 was appointed to the prestigious position of professor of anatomy at the Jardin du Roi. Louis XVIII named him the first Doctor to the King, a post he served under Charles X as well. His close relationship with King Louis led in 1820 to the creation of what became the ''Académie Nationale de Médecine'', of which he was lifelong president. In 1803 he published "Cours d'anatomie médicale", a 5-volume work on medical history. He was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Joseph Macquer
Pierre-Joseph Macquer (9 October 1718 – 15 February 1784) was an influential French chemist. He is known for his ''Dictionnaire de chymie'' (1766). He was also involved in practical applications, to medicine and industry, such as the French development of porcelain. He worked as a chemist in industries, such as the Manufacture de Sèvres or the Gobelins Manufactory. He was an opponent of Lavoisier's theories. The scholar Phillipe Macquer was his brother. In 1752 Macquer showed that the pigment Prussian blue could be decomposed by alkaline solutions into a solid iron hydroxide compound and an aqueous solution of Ferrocyanide. In his 1749 ''Elemens de Chymie Theorique'', Macquer builds on Geoffroy's 1718 affinity table, by devoting a whole chapter to the topic of chemical affinity: He became adjunct Chemist at the French Academy of Sciences the 5th of April 1745. He later became Associate Chemist in 1766 before being granted the permanent Chair of Chemistry in 1772. In 1768 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Louis
Antoine Louis (; 13 February 1723, Metz – 20 May 1792) was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist. He was originally trained in medicine by his father, a sergeant major at a local military hospital. As a young man he moved to Paris, where he served as ''gagnant-maîtrise'' at the Salpêtrière. In 1750 he was appointed professor of physiology, a position he held for 40 years. In 1764 he was appointed lifetime secretary to the Académie Royale de Chirurgie. Louis published numerous articles on surgery, including several biographies of surgeons who died in his lifetime. He also published the surgical aphorisms of Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738). Louis is credited with designing a prototype of the guillotine. For a period of time after its invention, the guillotine was called a ''louisette''. However, it was later named after French physician Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), whose advocacy of a more humane method of capital punishment prompted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Lieutaud
Joseph Lieutaud (21 June 1703 – 6 December 1780) was a French physician. Biography Early life Joseph Lieutaud was born on 21 June 1703 at 31 Rue Cardinale in Aix-en-Provence. His father was Jean-Baptiste Lieutaud, a lawyer, and his mother, Louise (de) Garibel. He started studying botany, following in the wake of his uncle, Pierre Joseph Garidel, and went on to be called upon as a doctor in the Hotel-Dieu in Aix-en-Provence. He graduated from the University of Aix-en-Provence in 1725. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739. Career By 1750, he became a doctor in the royal infirmary, then a pediatrician to the Louis XV court, and eventually the personal physician of King Louis XVI. He published an essay on human anatomy. His ''Précis de médecine pratique'', published in four instalments (between 1760 and 1776), shows how forward-thinking medical sciences were at that time. Death He died on 6 December 1780 in Versailles. Legacy *A street in the centre of Aix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lecuyer
Lecuyer or L'Écuyer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charlotte L'Écuyer (1943–2021), Canadian politician * Claude L'Écuyer (born 1947), Canadian politician * Doug Lecuyer (born 1958), Canadian retired ice hockey player * Gerald L'Ecuyer (born 1959), Canadian film and television director * Gerard Lecuyer (born 1936), Canadian politician from Manitoba * Jean Lécuyer, French track and field athlete * John L'Écuyer John L'Ecuyer (born November 15, 1964) is a Canadian film and television director. Biography John L'Ecuyer's first feature, ''Curtis's Charm'' (1995), was an adaptation of a Jim Carroll story. The film received a Special Jury Citation as Best Cana ... (born 1966), Canadian film and television director {{surname Occupational surnames fr:L'Écuyer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois De Lalande
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yusuf, Yūsuf''. In Persian language, Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
