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See also:FORCELLINI, EGIDIO (1688-1768) , See also:Italian philologist, was See also:born at Fener in the See also:district of Treviso and belonged to a very poor See also:family. He went to the See also:seminary at See also:Padua in 17o4, studied under See also:Facciolati, and in due course attained to the priesthood. From 1724 to 173 he held the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:rector of the seminary at Ceneda, and from 1731 to 1765 that of See also:father See also:confessor in the seminary of Padua. The remaining years of his See also:life were
reflections in rhombs of See also:rock-See also:salt. His See also:work won him the See also:Rumford See also:medal of the Royal Society in 1838, and in 1843 he received its Royal medal for a See also:paper on the " Transparency of the See also:Atmosphere and the See also:Laws of Extinction of the See also:Sun's Rays passing through it." In 1846 he began experiments on the temperature of the See also:earth at different depths and in different soils near See also:Edinburgh, which yielded determinations of the thermal conductivity of See also:trap-tufa, See also:sandstone and pure loose See also:sand. Towards the end of his life he was occupied with experimental inquiries into the laws of the See also:conduction of See also:heat in bars, and his last piece of work was to show that the thermal conductivity of See also:iron diminishes with increase of temperature. His See also:attention was directed to the question of the flow of glaciers in 184o when he met 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:Agassiz at the See also:Glasgow 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 of the See also:British Association, and in subsequent years he made several visits to See also:Switzerland and also to See also:Norway for the purpose of obtaining accurate data. His observations led him to the view that a See also:glacier is an imperfect fluid or a viscous See also:body which is urged down slopes of a certain inclination by the mutual pressure of its parts, and involved him in some controversy with See also:Tyndall. and others both as to priority and to scientific principle. See also:Forbes was also interested in See also:geology, and published See also:memoirs on the thermal springs of the See also:Pyrenees, on the See also:extinct volcanoes of the Vivarais (See also:Ardeche), on the geology of the Cuchullin and Eildon hills, &c. In addition to about 150 scientific papers, he wrote Travels through the See also:Alps of See also:Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine See also:Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers (1843); Norway and its Glaciers (1853); Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers (1859) ; A Tour of Mont See also:Blanc and See also:Monte See also:Rosa (1855). He was also the author (1852) of the " Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and See also:Physical See also:Science," published in the 8th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica.
at Cuttlebrae, See also:Banffshire, in 1787. He attended the See also:grammar school at See also:Aberdeen, and afterwards entered Marischal See also:College. After serving See also:Par nine years as a surgeon in the See also:navy, he graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1817, and then began to practise in See also:Penzance, whence he removed to See also:Chichester in 1822. He took up his See also:residence in See also:London in 1840, and in the following See also:year was appointed physician to the royal See also:household. He was knighted in 1853, and died on the 13th of See also:November 1861 at See also:Whitchurch in See also:Berkshire. See also:Sir See also:John Forbes was better known as an author and editor than as a See also:practical physician. His See also:works include the following: See also:Original Cases . . illustrating the Use of the See also:Stethoscope and Percussion in the Diagnosis of Diseases of the See also:Chest (1824) ; Illustrations of See also:Modern Mesmerism (1845); A Physician's See also:Holiday (1st ed., 1849); Memorandums made in See also:Ireland in the Autumn of 1852 (2 vols., 1853); Sight-seeing in See also:Germany and the Tyrol in the Autumn of 1855 (1856). He was See also:joint editor with A. Tweedie and J. See also:Conolly of The Cyclopaedia of Practical See also:Medicine (4 vols., 1833—1835); and in 18'6 he founded the British and See also:Foreign Medical See also:Review, which, after a See also:period of prosperity, involved its editor in pecuniary loss, and was discontinued in 1847, partly in consequence of the advocacy in its later See also:numbers of doctrines See also:obnoxious to the profession.
End of Article: FORCELLINI, EGIDIO (1688-1768)
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