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IN these two well illustrated volumes, the permanent secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences has collected a very useful and instructive series of short notices of the distinguished Frenchmen who promoted the cause of science in the French Empire during the later part of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. The Academy itself, of which M. Lacroix gives a short account, had during the seventeenth century no permanent home. It received help from Colbert, who was always prepared to further French colonial interests, and it was finally installed in the Louvre by the King in January 1699.
Figures de Savants
Tome 3: l'Académie des Sciences et l'Étude de la France d'Outre-Mer de la Fin du XVIIe Siècle au Début du XIXe. 1: Antilles et Guyane. Par Alfred Lacroix. Pp. xiii + 220 + 38 plates. 125 francs. Tome 4: l'Académie des Sciences et l'Étude de la France d'Outre-Mer de la Fin du XVIIe Siècle au Début du XIXe. 2: Mascareignes, Madagascar, Inde, Indochine, Pacifique. Par Alfred Lacroix. Pp. iv + 259 + 59 plates. 150 francs. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1938.)
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B., J. Figures de Savants. Nature 142, 974 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142974a0
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