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    Nicolas Desmarest (French pronunciation: [nikɔla demaʁɛ]; 16 September 1725 – 20 September 1815) was a French geologist and contributor to the Encyclopédie...
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  • Desmarest is the name of more than one French scientist: Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), and his son, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838) his son, Eugène...
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    Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme...
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    the Encyclopédie. In the caption to the plates, French geologist Nicolas Desmarest suggested, for the first time in print, that such structures were...
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    John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738) September 20 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725) October 13 – Joachim Murat, French marshal...
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  • years envisioned by biblical scholars. Jean-Étienne Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations on some of the...
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  • 1722 – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-Canadian general (d. 1799) 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist, zoologist, and author (d. 1815) 1745 – Mikhail...
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  • (b. 1764) 1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish republican (b. 1780) 1815 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725) 1839 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st...
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    Neptunism. The idea of a young Earth was further undermined in 1774 by Nicolas Desmarest, whose studies of a succession of extinct volcanoes in Europe showed...
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  • published by the library Roret. In addition, he made contributions to Nicolas Desmarest's "Encyclopédie méthodique : Géographie-physique". Late in his life...
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  • Derry (1906–1987), Canadian economic geologist, awarded Logan Medal Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), French, pioneer volcanologist Thomas Dibblee (1911–2004)...
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    and Daily, Geological Engineers of the King." This map is based on Nicolas Desmarest's 1768 detailed study of the geology and eruptive history of the Auvergne...
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    12 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) September 16 Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) Anna Barbara Gignoux, German industrialist...
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  • Mary Edwards, English human computer (born c.1750) September 20 – Nicolas Desmarest, French naturalist (born 1725) November 30 - Philippe Petit-Radel...
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    Charles Valée, Marshal of France Jacques Claude Beugnot, Politician Nicolas Desmarest, Geologist Pierre-Jean Grosley, Historian Edmé Boursault, Man of Letters...
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  • geneticist (died 1795) September 16 – Nicolas Desmarest, French naturalist (died 1815) September 25 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French mechanical engineer...
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  • 12 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) September 16 Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) Anna Barbara Gignoux, German industrialist...
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    Henri Desmarest, Marin Marais and François Couperin, philosophers Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Antoine Arnauld and the Port-Royal, Nicolas Malebranche...
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    geography into geohistory. The practice was still novel at the time, Nicolas Desmarest (1725-1815) publishing his essay on recognizing prismatic basalt as...
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  • inaccurate information regarding the origin of magmas. Norman L. Bowen Nicolas Desmarest Louis Cordier Harry von Eckermann Antoine Lacroix Akiho Miyashiro...
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  • Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, Bishop (born 1740) 20 September - Nicolas Desmarest, geologist (born 1725) 13 October - Joachim Murat, Marshal of France...
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    produce there in 1777 and to the Low Countries in 1777 accompanied by Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815) to study windmills. This gave him a steady post and independence...
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    depicting similar basalt formations in France, and included a caption by Nicolas Desmarest proposing, for the first time in print, that the structures were volcanic...
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    Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, François Couperin, Henry Desmarest, Michel-Richard Delalande, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and was made customary at the end of every...
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    double orchestra First name often spelled as Henry; surname variously as Desmarest, Desmaretz, Desmarais. See Wood (2001). Duron and Ferraton (2006) p. 173...
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  • – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) 16 September – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) 12 October – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French...
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    similarities between the French and English shores. Her footnotes mention Nicolas Desmarest's 1751 theory that France and Great Britain were formerly joined by...
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  • G. Pauly 1995 Lewis Peter Bennett Sacred repertories in Paris under Louis XIII Paris, Bibliothèque nationale Michel Antoine Henry Desmarest 1965 p34...
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    exaudivit me, H. 198, for soloists, choir, flutes, strings and continuo. Desmarest, Nicolas Bernier, André Campra, wrote a great motet Cum invocarem exaudivit...
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    Patrick Fragman (1967), President & CEO of Westinghouse Electric Nicolas Véron (1971) Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (1977) Alfred Galichon (1977) "Légifrance". "Comment...
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