RENE JUST See also:HAUY (1743-1822)
, See also:French mineralogist, commonly styled the See also:Abbe See also:Hauy, from being an honorary See also:canon of Notre See also:Dame, was See also:born at St Just, in the See also:department of See also:Oise, on the 28th of See also:February 1743
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His parents were in a humble See also:rank of See also:life, and were only enabled by the kindness of See also:friends to send their son to the See also:college of See also:Navarre and afterwards to that of Lemoine
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Becoming one of the teachers at the latter, he began to devote leisure See also:hours to the study of See also:botany; but an See also:accident directed his See also: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
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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 of See also:crystallization associated with his name (see See also:CRYSTALLOGRAPHY)
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The value of this See also: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, it secured for its author a See also:place in that society
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Ha iiy's name is also known for the observations he made in pyro-See also:electricity
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When the Revolution See also:broke out, he was thrown into See also:prison, and his life was even in danger, when he was saved by the intercession of E
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See also:Geoffroy See also:Saint-Hilaire
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In 1802, under See also:Napoleon, he became See also:professor of See also:mineralogy at the museum of natural history, but after 181.4 he was deprived of his appointments by the See also:government of the Restoration
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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 him in his old See also:age; and he lived cheerful and respected till his See also:death at See also:Paris on the 3rd of See also:June 1822
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The following are his See also:principal See also:works: Essai d'une theorie sur la structure See also:des cristaux (1784); Exposition raisonnee de la theorie de l'electricite et du magnetisme, d'apres See also:les principes d'See also: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 des mineraux (1809); Traite des pierres precieuses (1817); Traite de cristallographie (2 vols., 1822)
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He also contributed papers, of which Too are enumerated in the Royal Society's See also:catalogue, to various scientific See also:journals, especially the See also:Journal de physique and the See also:Annals du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle
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