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Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist.Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles (sometimes called Charles the Geometer [1]), also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.
In the Manuel du libraire Brunet employed a topical classification of his own devising, used in volume 6 of his bibliography. [2] He attributed to Aldus Manutius the first such bibliographic organization in his "Libri Greci Impressi" where the works were divided into "Grammatica, Poetica, Logica, Philosophia, Sacra Scriptura" (Grammar, Poesy, Logic, Philosophy, Sacred Scripture). [3]
1802 – Gay-Lussac first published the law that at constant pressure, the volume of any gas increases in proportion to its absolute temperature. Since in his paper announcing the law he cited earlier unpublished work on this subject by Jacques Charles, the law is usually called Charles's law, though some sources use the expression Gay-Lussac's ...
The book is filled with first-person accounts from major players inside and out of the seminal band, which Jones weaves together into a compelling examination of individual musicians and the rise ...
Charles Darwin: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1887 Philosophy Jean-Paul Sartre: The Words: 1964 David Hume: My Own Life: 1777 John Stuart Mill: Autobiography: 1874 Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi: 1955 Simone de Beauvoir: The Prime of Life: 1960 Physics Philip M. Morse: In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life: 1976 ...
Les Frères Robert were two French brothers.Anne-Jean Robert (1758–1820) and Nicolas-Louis Robert (1760–1828) were the engineers who built the world's first hydrogen balloon for professor Jacques Charles, [3] which flew from central Paris on 27 August 1783.
The law was named after scientist Jacques Charles, who formulated the original law in his unpublished work from the 1780s.. In two of a series of four essays presented between 2 and 30 October 1801, [2] John Dalton demonstrated by experiment that all the gases and vapours that he studied expanded by the same amount between two fixed points of temperature.
Journal of My Life (French: Journal de ma vie) is an autobiography by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, an eighteenth-century master glazier in Paris.Begun in 1764, when Ménétra returned from a journeyman's tour of the French provinces, Ménétra's text intersperses accounts of his life on the road and in Paris with tall tales, braggadocio, jokes, and accounts of his seductions and pranks.