Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier

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Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier
Natural scientist

Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier (sometimes written as Lemonnier) (27 June 1717 – 7 September 1799) was a French

natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.[1]

He was born near Vire as the son of Pierre Le Monnier (1675–1757), who was a scientist himself and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.[2] Louis-Guillaume's older brother was the astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier.[3]

Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier worked in physics, geology, medicine, and botany. In 1739 he accompanied the expedition of

fair weather condition".[5]

Like his father and his brother before him, Louis-Guillaume became a member of the Académie des sciences on 3 July 1743,[2] and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 7 February 1745,[6] of which his brother also was a member. On 30 June 1746, one year after his brother, he also became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[7]

With Claude Richard he was one of the original organizers of

Jardin des Plantes) in 1759, filling a spot left by the death of Bernard de Jussieu's brother Antoine in April of the previous year. In 1786 he was succeeded as professor of botany by René Louiche Desfontaines.[8]

For

Compass needle).[3][9] After 1759, he stopped publishing, though.[10] In his later career, he became in 1770 "Premier médecin ordinaire"[10] and in 1788 "Premier médecin du Roi".[2]

His lover was Marie Louise de Rohan, Madame de Marsan, future Governess of the Children of France.

His publications include:

  • Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l'équilibre des liqueurs et sur la nature et les propriétés de l'air (1742).
  • Observations d'histoire naturelle faites dans les provinces méridionales de France, pendant l'année 1739 (1744).
  • Recherches sur la Communication de l'Electricité (1746).
  • Observations sur l'Electricité de l'Air (1752).
The standard author abbreviation Le Monn. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[11]

References

  1. ^ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1989) Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 147
  2. ^ a b c d Cuvier, G.: Éloge historique de Lemmonier, 7 October 1800.
  3. ^ a b Crépel, P.: "La 'physique' dans l'Encyclopédie", Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, numéro 40–41, 2006. ISSN 1955-2416.
  4. ^ Le Monnier, L.-G.: "Recherches sur la Communication de l'Electricité", Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences (1746), pp. 477ff.
  5. ^ Le Monnier, L.-G.: "Observations sur l'Electricité de l'Air", Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences (1752), pp. 233ff.
  6. ^ The Royal Society: Lists of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007. URL. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  7. ^ Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Mitglieder der Vorgänger-Akademien. URL. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  8. ^ French National Archives: Jardin du Roi: Botanistes. URL. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  9. ^ L'Encyclopédie: "Aiguille aimantée".
  10. ^ a b Wronecki, M.-H.; Blondel, Ch.: "Le Monnier (ou Lemonnier), Louis-Guillaume (1717–1799)", Ampère et l'histoire de l'électricité, CNRS, 2005. URL. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  11. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Le Monn.
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