Nicolas Desmarest (French pronunciation: [nikɔla demaʁɛ]; 16 September 1725 – 20 September 1815) was a French geologist and contributor to the Encyclopédie...
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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and the father of Eugène...
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Desmarest is the name of more than one French scientist: Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), and his son, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838) his son, Eugène...
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the Encyclopédie. In the caption to the plates, French geologist Nicolas Desmarest suggested, for the first time in print, that such structures were...
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years envisioned by biblical scholars. Jean-Étienne Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations on some of the...
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Neptunism. The idea of a young Earth was further undermined in 1774 by Nicolas Desmarest, whose studies of a succession of extinct volcanoes in Europe showed...
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John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738) September 20 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725) October 13 – Joachim Murat, French marshal...
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Charles Valée, Marshal of France Jacques Claude Beugnot, Politician Nicolas Desmarest, Geologist Pierre-Jean Grosley, Historian Edmé Boursault, Man of Letters...
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12 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) September 16 Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) Anna Barbara Gignoux, German industrialist...
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1722 – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-Canadian general (d. 1799) 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist, zoologist, and author (d. 1815) 1745 – Mikhail...
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