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See also:GEOFFROY, See also:ETIENNE See also:FRANCOIS (1672-1731) , See also:French chemist, See also:born in See also:Paris on the 13th of See also:February 1672, was first an See also:apothecary and then practised See also:medicine. After studying at See also:Montpellier he accompanied See also:Marshal Tallard on his See also:embassy to See also:London in 1698 and thence travelled to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Italy. Returning to Paris he became See also:professor of See also:chemistry at the Jardin du Roi and of See also:pharmacy and medicine at the See also:College de See also:France, and See also:dean of the See also:faculty of medicine. He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:January 1731. His name is best known in connexion with his tables of See also:affinities (tables See also:des See also:rap ports) , which he presented to the French See also:Academy in 1718 and 1720. These were lists, prepared by collating observations on the actions of substances one upon another, showing the varying degrees of See also:affinity exhibited by analogous bodies for different reagents, and they retained their See also:vogue for the See also:rest of the See also:century, until displaced by the profounder conceptions introduced by C. L. Berthollet. Another of his papers dealt with the delusions of the philosopher's See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, but nevertheless he believed that See also:iron could be artificially formed in the See also:combustion of See also:vegetable See also:matter. His Tractatus de materia medica, published posthumously in 1741, was See also:long celebrated.
His See also:brother See also:CLAUDE See also:JOSEPH, known as Geoffroy the younger (1685-1752), was also an apothecary and chemist who, having a considerable knowledge of See also:botany, devoted himself especially to the study of the essential See also:oils in See also:plants.
End of Article: GEOFFROY, ETIENNE FRANCOIS (1672-1731)
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