Louis Feuillée

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Louis Feuillée

Louis Éconches Feuillée (born April 18, 1660 in Mane near Forcalquier in Provence , † 1732 in Marseille ) was a French Paulaner priest , explorer , astronomer , geographer and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Feuillée ".

Life

Feuillée was trained in geography and natural history by Jean Mathieu de Chazelles (1657–1710) and Charles Plumier . In 1699 he traveled the eastern Mediterranean coast, from 1703 to 1706 a research trip to the Antilles and the north coast of South America followed . From 1707 to 1711 he made another sea voyage to South America to explore the coastal regions of Argentina , Chile and Peru .

He published the results of his travels after his return to France in the years 1714 to 1725. Louis XIV had a spacious residence with an observatory built for him near Marseilles .

One last research trip took Feuillée to the western Canary Islands in 1724 . From 1699 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Honors

Carl von Linné named the genus Fevillea of the cucurbitaceae plant family in his honor .

In 1935, the International Astronomical Union named the Feuillée crater on the Earth's moon after him.

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  • Louis Feuillée: Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathématiques et Botaniques. Paris, 1714-1723.
  • Yvon Georgelin & Simone Arzano: Feuillée, astronome et botaniste . Marseille revue culturelle 185 (1998).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter F. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 12, 2019 (French).
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 469

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personal data
SURNAME Feuillée, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feuillée, Louis Éconches
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Paulaner Pater, explorer, astronomer, geographer and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Mane near Forcalquier, Provence
DATE OF DEATH 1732
Place of death Marseille