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Ramón María Termeyer
Ramón María Termeyer (2 February 1737 – c. 1815) was a Jesuit naturalist who lived in South America. He conducted experiments on silk including those from silkworms and spiders, plants, and electric eels. Following the Suppression of the Society of Jesus, he retired to live in Italy where he continued his research and writing. Life and work Termeyer was born in Cadiz and came from a family of Dutch descent. He joined the Society of Jesus in Andalusia on October 11, 1755 and in 1763 he was ordained in Serville. In 1764 he joined Father Juan de Escandón (1696-1772) to Buenos Aires. He travelled to Córdoba and then moved to the Rio de la Plata carrying with him silkworm eggs and mulberry seeds. He conducted experiments with silkworms and went to Paraguay to establish sericulture. Unable to grow mulberry, the silkworm experiments failed. He then worked with Florian Paucke in San Javier close to the Paraná River. Here he conducted experiments on electric eels and spider sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suppression Of The Society Of Jesus
The suppression of the Society of Jesus was the removal of all members of the Jesuits from most of Western Europe and their respective colonies beginning in 1759 along with the abolition of the order by the Holy See in 1773; the papacy acceded to anti-Jesuit demands without much resistance. The Jesuits were serially expelled from the Portuguese Empire (1759), Kingdom of France, France (1764), the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Two Sicilies, Hospitaller Malta, Malta, Duchy of Parma, Parma, the Spanish Empire (1767) and Archduchy of Austria, Austria and Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Hungary (1782). Historians identify multiple factors causing the suppression. The Jesuits, who were not above getting involved in politics, were distrusted for their closeness to the pope and his power in independent nations' religious and political affairs. In France, it was a combination of many influences, from Jansenism to free-thought, to the then-prevailing impatience with the Ancien Régime. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider Silk Extraction Termeyer
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 53,034 spider species in 136 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel. However, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological evidence that spiders ever had a separate thor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
