• Edmé-Gilles Guyot (1706–1786) was a French mail clerk, physician, postmaster, cartographer, inventor and author on the subject of mathematics, physics...
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    and manufacturer of conjuring apparatus and scientific instruments Edmé-Gilles Guyot described several techniques in his 1770 book Nouvelles récréations...
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  • increasing the speed of the manipulation of the different parts. In 1770 Edmé-Gilles Guyot detailed how to project a magic lantern image on smoke to create a...
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    translation of the Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathétiques by Edmé Gilles Guyot (1706–1786), which had been published in France in 1769.' The first...
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    excellent lenses and a diaphragm (see illustration above).: 688  In 1770, Edmé-Gilles Guyot described a method of using two slides for the depiction of a storm...
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    Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. "Musique Oculaire" in Edmé-Gilles Guyot, Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques, Gueffier, Paris...
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    geometric fallacy, since Hooper's book was largely an adaption of Edmé-Gilles Guyot's Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathétiques, which had been published...
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    a stationary slide which showed the rest of the picture. In 1770 Edmé-Gilles Guyot detailed how to project a magic lantern image on smoke to create a...
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    Marciana. Cod. Marc. Lat. XIV 32 (4702) f. 1r. (sec. XVI). Guyot, Edme Gilles and Guillaume Germain Guyot. 1769. Recreations Sur Les Nombres. Gueffier. Hooper...
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  • division) Gilles Jean Marie Roland de Barazer, chevalier de Kermorvan (général de brigade) Joseph Barbanègre (général de brigade) Antoine Edme Adam de Barbazan...
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    Bourlot 1712 – Jean-Baptiste Guyot 1713 – Martin 1714–15 – No award 1716 – 1717 – No award 1718 – 1721 – No award 1722 – Edmé Bouchardon 1723 – Lambert Sigisbert...
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  • Morgan, Augustus 550 Palmieri, Luigi 551 Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe 552 Guyot, Arnold Henry 553 Laurent, Auguste 554 Darwin, Charles Robert 555 Liouville...
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    Adolphe Thiers, architects. Daniel Bacque, Léon Ernst Drivier, Georges-Lucien Guyot, Paul Jouve, Pierre Poisson, Pierre Traverse, sculptors. Puits artésien...
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