Marc J Ratcliff, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Published online: May 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002766
A mathematician turned naturalist, experimentalist and engineer, Réaumur tackled a wide variety of subjects. He was the head of a network of scholars whose seminal works set new standards for experimentation in the life sciences during the 1740s.
Keywords: enlightenment science; experimentation; history of life sciences; technology; zoology
| Further Reading | |
| book Dawson VP (1987) Nature's Enigma: The Problem of the Polyp in the Letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| Ratcliff MJ (2005) Experiment, communication and patronage: a perspective on René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757). Biology of the Cell 97: 1–3. | |
| other Ratcliff MJ (forthcoming) The Quest for the Invisible: Microscopy in the Enlightenment. Aldershot: Ashgate. | |
| book Réaumur RAF (1734–1742) Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes, 6 vols. Paris: Imprimerie Royale. | |
| book Trembley M and Guyénot E (eds) (1943) Correspondance inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley. Georg: Genève. | |
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