RENE JUST See also:

• RENE JUST HAUY (1743-1822)

HAUY (1743-1822)  , See also:

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

French mineralogist, commonly styled the See also:

• ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

Abbe See also:

• HAUY, RENE JUST (1743-1822)

Hauy, from being an honorary See also:

• CANON

canon of Notre See also:

• DAME
• DAME (through the Fr. from Lat. domina, mistress, lady, the feminine of dominus, master, lord)

Dame, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at St Just, in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• OISE

Oise, on the 28th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1743 . His parents were in a humble See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• LIFE

life, and were only enabled by the kindness of See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends to send their son to the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of See also:

• NAVARRE (Span. Navarra)

Navarre and afterwards to that of Lemoine . Becoming one of the teachers at the latter, he began to devote leisure See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours to the study of See also:

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

botany; but an See also:

• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

accident directed his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to another See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field in natural See also:

• HISTORY

history . Happening to let fall a specimen of calcareous spar belonging to a friend, he was led by examination of the fragments to make experiments which resulted in the statement of the geometrical See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law of See also:

• CRYSTALLIZATION

crystallization associated with his name (see See also:

• CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (from the Gr. Kpbo TaXXO , ice, and -ypachew, to write)

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY) . The value of this See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery, the mathematical theory of which is given by Hauy in his Traite de mineralogie, was immediately recognized, and when communicated to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, it secured for its author a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in that society . Ha iiy's name is also known for the observations he made in pyro-See also:

• ELECTRICITY

electricity . When the Revolution See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out, he was thrown into See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison, and his life was even in danger, when he was saved by the intercession of E . See also:

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

Geoffroy See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-Hilaire . In 1802, under See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon, he became See also:

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

professor of See also:

• MINERALOGY

mineralogy at the museum of natural history, but after 181.4 he was deprived of his appointments by the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of the Restoration . His latter days were consequently clouded by poverty, but the courage and high moral qualities which had helped him forward in his youth did not See also:

• DESERT

desert him in his old See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age; and he lived cheerful and respected till his See also:

• DEATH

death at 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 3rd of See also:

• JUNE

June 1822 . The following are his See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORKS

works: Essai d'une theorie sur la structure See also:

• DES

des cristaux (1784); Exposition raisonnee de la theorie de l'electricite et du magnetisme, d'apres See also:

• LES

les principes d'See also:

• AEPINUS, FRANZ ULRICH THEODOR (1724-1802)

Aepinus (1787); De la structure consideree comme caractere distinctif des mineraux (1793); Exposition abregee' de la theorie de la structure des cristaux (1793); Extrait d'un traite elementaire de mineralogie (1797); Traite de mineralogie (4 vols., 18oi); Traite elementaire de physique (2 vols., 1803, 'Sob); Tableau comparatif des resultats de la cristallographie, et de l'analyse chirnique relativement a la See also:

• CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification des mineraux (1809); Traite des pierres precieuses (1817); Traite de cristallographie (2 vols., 1822) . He also contributed papers, of which Too are enumerated in the Royal Society's See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue, to various scientific See also:

• JOURNALS

journals, especially the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal de physique and the See also:

• ANNALS (Annales, from annus, a year)

Annals du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle .