See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

ETIENNE See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• GEOFFROY
• ETIENNE FRANCOIS GEOFFROY (1672-1731)
• GEOFFROY, JULIEN LOUIS (1743-1814)

GEOFFROY (1672-1731)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French chemist, See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 13th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1672, was first an See also:

• APOTHECARY (from the Lat. apothecarius, a keeper of an apotheca, Gr. aroth is , a store)

apothecary and then practised See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine . After studying at See also:

• MONTPELLIER

Montpellier he accompanied See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal Tallard on his See also:

• EMBASSY

embassy to See also:

• LONDON

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
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . Returning to Paris he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry at the Jardin du Roi and of See also:

• PHARMACY

pharmacy and medicine at the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and See also:

• DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)
• DEAN, FOREST OF

dean of the See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of medicine . He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1731 . His name is best known in connexion with his tables of See also:

• AFFINITIES

affinities (tables See also:

• DES

des See also:

• RAP

rap ports) , which he presented to the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

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 (Lat. affinitas, relationship by marriage, from offinis, bordering on, related to; finis, border, boundary)
• AFFINITY, CHEMICAL

affinity exhibited by analogous bodies for different reagents, and they retained their See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue for the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

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 [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron could be artificially formed in the See also:

• COMBUSTION (from the Lat. comburere, to burn up)

combustion of See also:

• VEGETABLE

vegetable See also:

• MATTER

matter . His Tractatus de materia medica, published posthumously in 1741, was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long celebrated . His See also:

• BROTHER

brother See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

CLAUDE See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH, known as See also:

• GEOFFROY
• GEOFFROY, ETIENNE FRANCOIS (1672-1731)
• GEOFFROY, JULIEN LOUIS (1743-1814)

Geoffroy the younger (1685-1752), was also an apothecary and chemist who, having a considerable knowledge of See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, devoted himself especially to the study of the essential See also:

• OILS (adopted from the Fr. oile, mod. huile, Lat. oleum, olive oil)

oils in See also:

• PLANTS

plants .