Guillaume Mazéas

Guillaume Mazéas ( Abbé Mazéas ) (born August 2, 1720 in Vannes ; † September 13, 1775 ibid) was a physicist in Rome and Paris.

His father Mathurin Mazéas lived in Landerneau . His brother was the mathematician Jean-Mathurin Mazéas (1713-1801). Guillaume Mazéas became canon in Vannes. He dealt with atmospheric electricity and geology. Around 1751 he gave the Royal Society in London the first news of the experiments with the bars in France . His studies of red dyeing in East India and its improvement in France were of great industrial benefit.

In 1758 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie royale des sciences in Paris.

Works

Lettre d'un negociant à un Milord dans la quelle on considere sans partialité l'importance de l'île Minorque et de Port Mahon (About Minorca and the port of Mahon ); (Paris) 1756
La pharmacopée des pauvres. Paris 1757
Observations of the colors produced by rubbing transparent surfaces online at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy

Web links

Entry for Mazéas, Guillaume (1720-1775) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London

Individual evidence

↑ List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 - 2007, KZ ( Memento from August 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Mazeas . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 11 . Altenburg 1860, p. 38 ( zeno.org ).
↑ Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Exhibits
↑ Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Parameters of Color Quality
↑ Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Glossary Index
↑ Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Turkey Red
^ List of members since 1666: Letter M. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 21, 2020 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Mazéas, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mazéas, Abbé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vannes
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1775
Place of death	Vannes

[1] List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 - 2007, KZ ( Memento from August 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Mazeas . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 11 . Altenburg 1860, p. 38 ( zeno.org ).

[3] Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Exhibits

[4] Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Parameters of Color Quality

[5] Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Glossary Index

[6] Sarah Lowengard: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. New York 2006, Turkey Red

[7] List of members since 1666: Letter M. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 21, 2020 (French).