René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
1683–1757
French mathematician, physicist, and natural historian. Invented the thermometer scale that bears his name. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1738.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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