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| | Knowledge King - Louis de Freycinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Louis Claude de Saulses de Freycinet, (August 7, 1779 - August 18, 1842) was a French navigator. |
 | | After taking part in several engagements against the British, he joined in 1800, along with his brother (Louis Henri de Freycinet (?-1840), who afterwards rose to the rank of admiral), an expedition to explore the south and south-west coasts of Australia. |
 | | In 1817 he commanded the Uranie, in which Arago and others went to Rio de Janeiro, to take a series of pendulum measurements as well as a larger scheme for obtaining observations, not only in geography and ethnology, but in astronomy, terrestrial magnetism, and meteorology, and for the collection of specimens in natural history. |
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