Guillaume Mazeas Explained

Honorific Prefix:Father
Guillaume Mazeas
Birth Date:2 August 1720
Birth Place:Vannes
Death Place:Vannes
Fields:physics, chemistry, geology
Patrons:Adrien Maurice de Noailles
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Father Guillaume Mazeas (French: Abbé Guillaume Mazéas; 2 August 1720 – 13 September 1775) was a translator of English scientific works into French, a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society.[1] He was canon of the cathedral of Vannes, France.[1] [2] He corresponded with Stephen Hales on scientific matters, including his experiences with the lightning rod invented by Benjamin Franklin.[1] [3] His investigations of red dyeing in the East Indies and their improvement in France were of significant industrial value.[2] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Founders Online: Guillaume Mazéas to Stephen Hales, 20 May 1752 . Founders Online . 18 January 2019 . 17 March 2019.
  2. Web site: Mazeas . Zeno.org . 15 April 2001 . de . 17 March 2019.
  3. XCI. Letters of the Abbé Mazeas, F.R.S. to the Rev. Stephen Hales, D.D., F.R.S. concerning the success of the late experiments in France. Translated from the French by James Parsons, M.D. F.R.S.. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . The Royal Society . 47 . 1752 . 0261-0523 . 10.1098/rstl.1751.0092 . 534–552. 186210049 .
  4. Web site: Sarah. Lowengard. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe . Gutenberg-e Home . 24 December 1999 . 17 March 2019.