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    Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 – 20 February 1771) was a French natural philosopher (physicist), born in the town of Béziers on 26...
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    Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, Henri François d'Aguesseau, Alexis Clairaut. Front row, right to...
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    Bovier de Fontenelle (nominated by king in Jan 1699) Jan 1741 – Aug 1743 Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan Sep 1743 – Jul 1776 Jean-Paul Grandjean de Fouchy...
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  • emits in the dark) (Giessen, Germany: Muller, 1716). Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, "Sur la cause de la lumière des phosphores et des notiluques" (Bordeaux...
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    include another fellow Cartesian, Pierre Sylvain Regis, as well as Dortous de Mairan. De Mairan was sympathetic to the views of Baruch Spinoza, and felt that...
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    Arts de Rouen. 1994. Bergot, François (2009). Trésors de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen. Point de vues. "Mairan, Jean-Jacques Dortous...
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    thermale : Jacques-J. Cornu, Contribution à l'histoire de la pharmacie". Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie. 41 (136): 16–17. Dortous de Mairan, Jean-Jacques (1742)...
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  • eulogy by Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan in the Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences in 1742 Dortous de Mairan, Jean-Jacques (1742). "Éloge de Gilles-François...
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