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    René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (French: [ʁeomyʁ]; 28 February 1683, La Rochelle – 17 October 1757, Saint-Julien-du-Terroux) was a French entomologist...
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    respectively. The scale is named for René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who first proposed a similar scale in 1730. Réaumur's thermometer contained diluted alcohol...
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    naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur as the curator of a large private collection of objects related to natural history that de Réaumur kept at his...
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    1907, after Rue Réaumur and the Boulevard de Sébastopol. Those are respectively named after the scientist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur and for the port...
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    the dominant mating pattern. The name polyp was given by René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur to these organisms from their superficial resemblance to an...
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  • influential judge among those selecting the winning essays was René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who favoured Decartes' vortex theory, and who insisted that...
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    following spring. The name honours the French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. Adela reaumurella Adults resting Adults swarming Mounted...
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    and used as feed for poultry. In 1750, French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur published a detailed report of the ovens, and declared that...
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    entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who was Musschenbroek's appointed correspondent at the Paris Academy. Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet read this...
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    the formation of the Bignon Commission under Abbé Bignon. René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757) became editor soon after he joined the academy...
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