Dutour, Etienne Franȯis, 1711-1784.
Etienne Franȯis Dutour letters, 1744-1756.
This is a collection of drafts of letters written by Dutour to Abb ̌Jean Antoine Nollet. Dutour describes his various experiments on the influence of flame on electricity, as well as with luminous barometers. There is information relative to eighteenth-century scientific apparatus, as well as to contemporary scientists, such as Giambatista Beccaria, Franȯis de Cisternay Du fay, Dortous de Mairan, Petrus von Musschenbroek, and Ren ̌Antoine Ferchault de Rǎumur.
Etienne Franȯis Dutour was a French physicist and theologian.
Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781
Du fay, Charles-Franȯis de Cisternay, 1698-1739.
Mairan, Dortous de, 1678-1771
Musschenbroek, Petrus von, 1692-1761.
Nollet, abb ̌(Jean Antoine), 1700-1770.
Rǎumur, Ren-̌Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757.
Barometer.
Electricity -- Early works to 1850.
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- 18th century.
Scientists -- 18th century.
Beccaria, Giovanni Battista, 1716-1781.
Mairan, Dortous de, 1678-1771
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