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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROME DE L'ISLE, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:LOUIS (1736-1790), See also:French mineralogist, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:August 1736 at See also:Gray, in Haute-See also:Saone. As secretary of a See also:company of See also:artillery he visited the See also:East Indies, and was taken prisoner by the See also:English in '761 and held in captivity for three years. Subsequently he became distinguished for his researches on See also:mineralogy and See also:crystallography. He was the author of Essai de Cristallographie (1772), the second edition of which, regarded as his See also:principal See also:work, was published as Cristallographie (3 vols. and See also:atlas, 1783). He died at See also:Paris on the 7th of See also:March 1790.

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