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	Horace Benedict De Saussure - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HORACE BENEDICT DE SAUSSURE (1740-1799), Swiss physicist and Alpine traveller, was born at Geneva on the 17th of February 1740.1 Under the influence of his father and his maternal uncle, Charles Bonnet, he devoted himself to botany.
		He made an unsuccessful 1 His father, Nicolas de Saussure (1709-1790), an agriculturist of unusually liberal opinions, resided all his life at his farm of Conches, on the Arve, near Geneva.
		Saussure's geological observations made him a firm believer in the Neptunian theory: he regarded all rocks.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Horace_Benedict_De_Saussure (941 words)

	Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		de Saussure was born in Conches, near Geneva.
		Saussure's geological observations made him a firm believer in the Neptunian theory: he regarded all rocks and minerals as deposited from aqueous solution or suspension, and attached much importance to the study of meteorological conditions.
		De Saussure was honoured by being depicted on the 20 Swiss franc banknote of the sixth issue of Swiss National Bank notes (1979-1995 when replaced by the eighth issue, and the notes were recalled in 2000) (These notes will become valueless on 1 May 2020).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horace_de_Saussure (874 words)

	Horace de Saussure and his Hot Boxes of the 1700's
		De Saussure therefore placed the wooden box into the middle of an open-topped container and stuffed wool packing between the sides of the container and the walls of the box.
		Thus de Saussure’s hypothesis was confirmed: the sun shines with almost equal force at higher and lower elevations—as proved by the equal temperatures in the hot box on the mountain and on the plains.
		De Saussure’s hot box served as a model for nineteenth-century scientists demonstrating the relationship of the sun to the earth and its atmosphere.
	solarcooking.org /saussure.htm (1436 words)

	Horace de Saussure and his Hot Boxes of the 1700's
		De Saussure therefore placed the wooden box into the middle of an open-topped container and stuffed wool packing between the sides of the container and the walls of the box.
		Thus de Saussure’s hypothesis was confirmed: the sun shines with almost equal force at higher and lower elevations—as proved by the equal temperatures in the hot box on the mountain and on the plains.
		De Saussure’s hot box served as a model for nineteenth-century scientists demonstrating the relationship of the sun to the earth and its atmosphere.
	www.solarcooking.org /saussure.htm (1418 words)

	Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
		Horace Benedict de Saussure (February 27, 1740 - January 22, 1799), Swiss physicist and Alpine traveller, was born at Geneva.
		Saussure's geological observations made him a firm believer in the Neptunian theory: he regarded all rocks and minerals as deposited from aqueous solution or suspension, and in view of this he attached much importance to the study of meteorological conditions.
		It is perhaps as a geologist (it is said that he was the first to use the term "geology"--see the "Discours préliminaire" to vol i.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ho/Horace_Benedict_de_Saussure.html (863 words)

	Saussure
		Mountaineering in a contemporary sporting sense was born when a young Genevese scientist, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, on a first visit to Chamonix in 1760, viewed Mont Blanc (at 15,771 feet [4,807 m] the tallest peak in Europe) and determined he would climb to the top of it or be responsible for its being climbed.
		It was de Saussure who discovered the distance between the balls was not linearly related to the amount of charge.
		The Saussure hygrometer in the Gabinete de Física was constructed in Coimbra.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/saussure.html (1229 words)

	Horace Bénédict de Saussure
		Horace Bénédict de Saussure, a Swiss geologist and meteorologist, took his research further beyond the theological realm.
		In this engraving by Ambroise Tardieu, circa, based upon a painting, Saussure is holding a pick ax and what appears to be a compass in his left hand.
		Saussure did not arrive at a general system for the earth, yet he provided valuable data for those who followed him, such as Charles Lyell, who said "his theoretical observations are mere modifications of the old cosmological doctrines."
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist257s02/students/Anna/Saussure.htm (199 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ferdinand de Saussure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 - February 22, 1913) was a Swiss linguist.
		His work Cours de linguistique générale (Course in General Linguistics) was published posthumously in 1916 by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye based on lecture notes.
		Their expansive interpretations of Saussure's theories, and their application of those theories to non-linguistic fields of study led to theoretical difficulties, eventually causing proclamations of the "death" of structuralism in those disciplines.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ferdinand_de_Saussure (359 words)

	Mémoire historique sur la vie et les écrits de Horace Bénédict de Saussure, pour servir d'introduction à la ...
		De Saussure was one of the founders of modern alpinism and Senebier renders him due honor for that, with exhaustive descriptions of his expedition and of his discoveries during these.
		De Saussure was also an excellent botanist, who identified several new species, and an excellent physicist, inventor of the hygrometer.
		A less known facet of the activity of de Saussure is the interest he brought to the nascent aerostatics; he collaborated with Montgolfier, measuring i.a.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/alt/38719.shtml (348 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Saussure, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Saussure, Ferdinand de SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE [Saussure, Ferdinand de], 1857-1913, Swiss linguist.
		One of the founders of modern linguistics, he established the structural study of language, emphasizing the arbitrary relationship of the linguistic sign to that which it signifies.
		Saussure, Horace Bénédict de SAUSSURE, HORACE BÉNÉDICT DE [Saussure, Horace Bénédict de], 1740-99, Swiss physicist and geologist.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Saussure, (576 words)

	Ferdinand de Saussure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		De Saussure was a noted linguist whose theories on the structure of language had a profound effect on modern linguistics and
		His father, Henri de Saussure, was a well known biologist and his grandfather, Horace-Benedict, was a geologist who advanced the science of tectonics, as well as being the first person to climb to the summit of Mont-Blanc (1787).
		De Saussure is known as the "Father of Modern Linguistics" Because of his work with Indo-European languages.
	home.earthlink.net /~potterama/Michele/projects/hyper/desaussure.html (204 words)

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		Horace de Saussure coincidently created the first solar box cooker, although, because cooking food was not his objective he failed to revolutionize the solar cooking as an efficient home appliance.
		Horace de Saussure, “set out to determine how effectively glass heat traps could collect the energy of the sun.” Horace de Saussure placed five consecutively smaller open bottomed glass boxes within each other on a fl table, in which he placed a piece of fruit.
		As Horace de Saussure documented, a solar box cooker works because the sunlight entering the solar box through the glass or plastic top is transformed into heat energy when it is absorbed by the dark absorber plate and cooking pots.
	www.uvm.edu /~gflomenh/CDAE170/2003/papers/Stall-Solar_Ovens.doc (1299 words)

	de Saussure
		Horace is known as the first scientist who climbed the " Mont Blanc " on 3 august 1787, one year after the first climb by J. Balmat and M.G. Paccard.
		Horace and his son Nicolas, who was an active member of the expedition, made experiments on air humidity, air pressure and water ebullition and estimated the Mont Blanc altitude at 4775 m, about 30 meters less than the exact altitude.
		J'ai trouvé que l'huile de thérébenthine avait pu absorber, dans l'espace de quatre mois, vingt fois son volume de gaz oxygène, en produisant un volume de gaz acide quatre fois moindre que le gaz oxygène absorbé.
	www.cyberlipid.org /perox/saussure.htm (577 words)

	Irish Emigrant - News and jobs for the global Irish community
		Saussure travelled in Germany, Italy and England, wrote extensively and is famous for his monumental four-volumes on Voyages dans Les Alpes (1779-96).
		A pioneer in the study of mineralogy, botany, geology and meteorology, Saussure's Travels in the Alps is preceded by an essay on the natural history of the Geneva region, a work recognised as laying the foundations of modern geology and introducing the word geology into the scientific nomenclature.
		Horace-Bénédict Saussure is associated with many other inventions or improvements in a wide range of fields and scientific instruments which carry his name.
	www.emigrant.ie /article.asp?iCategoryID=399&iArticleID=52397 (760 words)

	Con De Saussure alla scoperta della montagna incantata - La Stampa Web
		Lungo i tornanti del Sempione, mentre emergo spingendo sui pedali dall’ombra della stretta valle, immagino i passi di De Saussure che in quei giorni di 217 anni fa calcavano questa porzione di Alpi.
		De Saussure cammina ai bordi dei ghiacciai col martello in mano per prelevare campioni di roccia, e subito dopo, abbandonato il ruolo del geologo, misura il vento e più tardi si china a indagare la bassa e rada vegetazione che vibra al vento dei tremila.
		Andare in montagna, per De Saussure, significava soprattutto andare in alto per abbattere intorno a sé ogni sorta di barriera prospettica e vedere il mondo con uno sguardo d’insieme.
	www.lastampa.it /redazione/cmsSezioni/societa/200608articoli/9239girata.asp (818 words)

	Geology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word "geology" was first used by Jean-André Deluc in the year 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the year 1779.
		An older meaning of the word was first used by Richard de Bury to distinguish between earthly and theological jurisprudence.
		In China, the polymath Shen Kua (1031 - 1095) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geology (1633 words)

	Geologia
		The word was first used in this sense by Jean-André de Luc in the year 1778 and introduced by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the year 1779 as a fixed term.
		Followers of Hutton were known as plutonists because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the neptunists, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.
		The theory of continental drift was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912 and by Arthur Holmes, but wasn't broadly accepted until the 1960s when the theory of plate tectonics was developed.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/pt/wikipedia/g/ge/geologia.html (1141 words)

	Solar cooker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However since they use no fuel they are free to run, humanitarian organizations are promoting their use worldwide to help slow deforestation and desertification caused by the need for firewood with which to cook.
		The first known solar cooker was built by Horace de Saussure in 1767.
		Although invented by Horace de Saussure, a Swiss naturalist, as early as 1767, solar box cookers have only gained popularity since the 1970s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solar_oven (1335 words)

	Quand le Marquis de Condorcet s'adressait à l'auteur d'un Projet de réforme du Collège de Genève...
		De cette galerie de portraits, celui de Marie Jean Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet, le philosophe entré en politique, se détache brillamment par la grâce d'un livre remarquable d'Elisabeth et Robert Badinter et d'un film de Michel Soutter, inspiré du livre.
		Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, de son côté, pratiquait la science en homme de terrain, arpentant les Alpes sans relâche, multipliant les observations dont il espérait tirer une théorie de l'origine de la Terre et des montagnes; il fut en cela un véritable précurseur de la géologie moderne.
		Tous deux voient dans l'instruction le principal facteur d'évolution des sociétés et tentent de convaincre leurs concitoyens de l'urgence d'une réforme en profondeur de l'institution scolaire.
	hypo.ge-dip.etat-ge.ch /www/saussure/html/HBS/node89.html (986 words)

	Sur la lettre de Condorcet à Horace-Bénédict de Saussure.
		s'inscrit dans la réaction des philosophes à l'éventuel rétablissement des jésuites par le biais des institutions éducatives.
		Ce n'est pas ici le lieu d'analyser les critiques de Condorcet au <> de Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, ni de suivre l'évolution de sa pensée pédagogique dans le contexte de son époque et de son oeuvre.
		L'anticléricalisme perce dans la lettre au savant genevois; la critique de l'histoire et des fables, l'importance de l'exercice du corps dans la conservation des moeurs et la manière d'aborder l'histoire naturelle sont teintées de rousseauisme, se retrouvent dans des nombreux traités de l'époque, et définissent certains éléments de la pédagogie de l'avenir.
	hypo.ge-dip.etat-ge.ch /www/saussure/html/HBS/node88.html (485 words)

	Mont Blanc
		Horace Benedicte de Saussure, a genevois man of science was the instigator of this great adventure.
		Horace Bénédicte de Saussure climbed finally the mountain which, during so a long time, had be the object of its desires.
		Michel-Gabriel Paccard was eclipsed until a group of scientists and historians of the alpinism impose his recognition and which a bust of the doctor is inaugurated in 1932.
	damoule.free.fr /HistoireMont-Blancgb.htm (698 words)

	Saussure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henri Louis Frederic de Saussure (1829-1905), Swiss mineralogist and entomologist (taxonomist)
		Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure (1767-1845), chemist, son of Horace-Bénédict
		William Ford De Saussure, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saussure (120 words)

	BookRags: Nicolas Théodore de Saussure Biography
		Nicolas Théodore de Saussure was a Swiss botanist and a pioneer in the field of phytochemistry, the study of plant chemistry.
		Nicolas, born in 1767, was the son of Horace Benedict de Saussure, a Swiss geologist and meteorologist best known for his studies of the Alps.
		When Saussure eventually returned to Geneva in 1802, the position was no longer available and instead he was named an Honorary Professor of Mineralogy and Geology.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/nicolas-theodore-de-saussure-wob (398 words)

	al spotlights on Switzerland. About Swiss chocolate, cheese, mountains, clocks : Pioneers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The "Hôtel des Neuchâtelois", the name given to the shelter under a boulder on the Aar glacier where Agassiz and his team lived while conducting their research.
		Born in Geneva, Saussure was a pioneer of rational exploration of the Alps.
		Saussure was portrayed on the 20 franc note of the 1976 series.
	www.swissworld.org /eng/swissworld.html?siteSect=901&sid=4107623&rubricId=17100 (1483 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Horace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gray, Horace GRAY, HORACE [Gray, Horace] 1828-1902, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1881-1902), b.
		Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley SCHACHT, HJALMAR HORACE GREELEY [Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley], 1877-1970, German financier.
		Horace M. Kallen: pluralism and American Jewish identity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Horace&StartAt=11 (560 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Horace De Saussure invented the first solar cooker.
		When people became aware of De Saussure’s experimental work, they began building their own solar cookers.
		De Saussure’s original design has been modified many times throughout the years, but its basic purpose remains the same; solar cookers use the energy from the sun to cook food.
	home.comcast.net /~jyuster/solarovenintro.htm (398 words)

	International Foundation High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat
		Generally, the 1787 ascent of Mont Blanc by Horace Bénédict de Saussure is considered as the beginning of the touristic and scientific exploration of the Alps (see Figure).
		From 1838-1841, following the example of de Saussure, Louis Agassiz, who later became Professor at Harvard University in the USA, and who was the father of the then highly controversial glacial theory, led a scientific expedition to explore the glaciers of the river Aare and in the Jungfrau region.
		Construction of a new 7.5m cupola on the south tower by the French ‘Institut National d’Astronomie et de Géophysique, the ‘Observatoire de Lyon’, and the ‘Observatoire de Genève’, and installation of the 1m telescope ‘Marly’ by the ‘Observatoire de Lyon’.
	www.ifjungo.ch /gornergrat/history.html (1136 words)

	Horace Bénédict De Saussure Biography (1740–99) Online Encyclopedia Article About Horace Bénédict De Saussure ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Horace Bénédict De Saussure Biography (1740–99) Online Encyclopedia Article About Horace Bénédict De Saussure Biography (1740–99)
		The mineral saussurite is named after him, and he introduced the term geology into scientific nomenclature.
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/048/Horace-B-n-dict-de-Saussure.html (159 words)

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