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Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay (14
September 1698 – 16 July 1739) was a
French chemist and
superintendent of the
Jardin du Roi. He
discovered the...
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bodies that were
electrified by rubbing. In 1733
Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay,
inspired by Gray's work, made a
series of
experiments (reported...
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music theorist.
Dufay or du Fay may also
refer to:
Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay (1698–1739),
French chemist Claude Dufay (1926–2001),
French entomologist...
- The "two-fluid"
theory of electricity,
created by
Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay,
postulated that
electricity was the
interaction between two electrical...
- electricity. By the mid-18th
century the
French chemist Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay had
discovered two
types of
static electricity, and that like charges...
- sun (Kunz 1913: 168). In 1735, the
French chemist Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay
determined that
lapis lazuli, emerald, and
aquamarine were luminescent...
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patronage of J. Bernoulli] (Basil, Switzerland: 1719).
Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay, "Sur les
barometres lumineux" (On
luminous barometers), Histoire...
- Le
Bovier de Fontenelle,
Nicolas Malebranche and
Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay. In 1715 he left for
London to
observe an
eclipse of the sun and...
- 264 Bouguer,
Pierre 265 Baker,
Henry 266 Du Fay,
Charles François de
Cisternay 267 Maupertuis,
Pierre Louis Moreau de 268 Bernoulli,
Daniel 269 Kleist...
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princess of Hesse-K****el (d. 1777)
September 14 –
Charles François de
Cisternay du Fay,
French chemist and
superintendent of the
Jardin du Roi (d. 1739)...
