SAUSSURE, HORACE-BENEDICT DE |
Switzerland, 1740-99, PHIM |
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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure; naturalist; professor of philosophy at the University of Geneva (1762-86); improved several instruments; left a large collection of sundials and other nautical and philosophical instruments which are now in the History of Science Museum in Geneva; invented and made a "cyanometer." |
Geneva. |
A.J. Turner 10; Archinard; DSB. |
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