Les Savants Modernes Collection

Gaspard Monge, French mathematician
Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), French mathematician. Monge is remembered as founder of descriptive geometry, the basis of modern engineering drawing, and for his work on the curvature of surfaces

Etienne Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist. Saint-Hilaire was professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris between 1793 and 1840

Claude Bernard, French physiologist
Claude Bernard (1813-1878), French physiologist and pioneer of experimental medicine and physiological chemistry. Bernards discoveries were wide-ranging

Jean Dumas, French chemist
Jean Dumas (1800-1884), French chemist. In 1830 Dumas challenged the views of Berzelius on chemical structure, proposing in its place his own type theory

Jean Delambre, French astronomer
Jean Delambre (1749-1822), French astronomer. He published astronomical tables in 1792, predicting the orbits of the Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter and its satellites

Rene-Just Hauy, French mineralogist
Rene-Just Hauy (1743-1822), French mineralogist and founder of crystallography. Hauy, an ordained Priest, became interested in crystallography in 1781 after noticing the straight lines

Jean Baptiste Biot, French physicist
Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), French physicist. Biots most famous work concerned optical activity. He showed for the first time that different types of quartz rotate the plane of polarised light in

Marie-Francois Bichat, pathologist
Marie-Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802), French pathologist and founder of modern histology. Bichat noted that various organs consist of several components, or tissues

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