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DAUBENTON , See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS-See also:JEAN-See also:MARIE (1716-1800), See also:French naturalist, was See also:born at Montbar (Cote d'Or) on the 29th of May 1716. His See also:father, Jean Daubenton, a See also:notary, destined him for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and sent him to See also:Paris to learn See also:theology, but the study of See also:medicine was more to his See also:taste. The See also:death of his father in 1736 set him See also:free to follow his own inclinations, and accordingly in 1741 he graduated in medicine at See also:Reims, and returned to his native See also:town with the intention .of practising as a physician. But about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:Buffon, also a native of Montbar, had formed the See also:plan of bringing out a See also:grand See also:treatise on natural See also:history, and in 1742 he invited Daubenton to assist him by providing the anatomical descriptions for that See also:work. The characters of the two men were opposed in almost every respect. Buffon was violent and impatient; Daubenton, See also:gentle and patient; Buffon was rash in his judgments, and imaginative, seeking rather to divine than to discover truths; Daubenton was cautious, and believed nothing he had not himself been able to see or ascertain. From nature each appeared to have received the qualities requisite to See also:temper those of the other; and a more suitable coadjutor than Daubenton it would have been difficult for Buffon to obtain. In the first See also:section of the natural history Daubenton gave descriptions and details of the See also:dissection of 182 See also:species of quadrupeds, thus procuring for himself a high reputation, and exciting the envy of See also:Reaumur, who considered himself as at the See also:head of the learned in natural history in See also:France. A feeling of See also:jealousy induced Buffon to dispense with the services of Daubenton in the preparation of the subsequent parts of his work, which, as a consequence, lost much in precision and scientific value. Buffon afterwards perceived and acknowledged his See also:error, and renewed his intimacy with his former See also:associate. The number of See also:dissertations on natural history which Daubenton published in the See also:memoirs of the French See also:Academy is very See also:great. Zoological descriptions and dissections, the See also:comparative See also:anatomy of See also:recent and fossil animals, See also:vegetable See also:physiology, See also:mineralogy, experiments in See also:agriculture, and the introduction of the See also:merino See also:sheep into France gave active occupation to his energies; and the See also:cabinet of natural history in Paris, of which in 1744 he was appointed keeper and demonstrator, was arranged and considerably enriched by him. From 1775 Daubenton lectured on natural history in the See also:college of medicine, and in 1783 on rural See also:economy at the Alfort school. He was also See also:professor of mineralogy at the Jardin du Roi. As a lecturer he was in high repute, and to the last retained his popularity. In See also:December 1799 he was appointed a member of the See also:senate, but at the first See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting which he attended he See also:fell from his seat in an apoplectic See also:fit, and after a See also:short illness died at Paris on the 1st of See also:January 1800.
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