Jean-André Mongez (21 November 1750 – May 1788) was a French

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and

mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...

. He is presumed to have died at

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, on the La Pérouse expedition.

Life

Mongez was born in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

. He joined the

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s of

Sainte-Geneviève Abbey The Abbey of Saint Genevieve (French: ''Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève'') was a monastery in Paris. Reportedly built by Clovis, King of the Franks in 502, it became a centre of religious scholarship in the Middle Ages. It was suppressed at the time of t ...

in Paris and devoted himself to scientific studies, giving his findings to several scholarly societies. As editor of the ''

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'', he belonged to the Société d’histoire naturelle at the académies de Rouen,

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

and

. Many had called for him to enter the

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when he left in 1785 as doctor and

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to the Pérouse expedition. He had been presented for this role by his abbot at

, Pingré, and his talents also extended to

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, water chemistry, and mineral salts. He received patents from the Jardin royal des plantes to collect for it before setting out. In the course of the journey, at Ténérife, all the ship's scholars climbed the mountain, with La Martinière collecting plants and

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making an attempt to level out the peak (which failed since the muletiers refused to go right to the top). Father

Louis Receveur Claude-Francois Joseph Louis Receveur Conventual Franciscans, O.F.M. Conv., (1757 – 17 February 1788) was a French friar Priesthood (Catholic Church), priest, naturalist and astronomer who sailed with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérous ...

and his colleagues

Lamanon Lamanon () is a commune located in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Lamanonais'' in French. North of the village the archaeological site of Grottes ...

and Mongez experimented on air, magnetics and electricity at the peak. At

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Lamanon, La Martinière, Mongez and Receveur addressed a collective letter to Lapérouse complaining that he did not listen to them sufficiently.

Publications

*''Description, usages et avantages de la machine pour la fracture des jambes d' Albert Pieropan'', 1782, in-8° ; *''Manuel du minéralogiste, etc., traduit de

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et augmenté de Notes''.

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Life

Publications

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