T

Tardy, Claude, 127 -128

Tauvry, Daniel, 18 , 21 , 172 , 315 n.16

Taxidermy, 210 .

See also Colson

Technology. See Practical projects of Academy

Temperaments, theory of, ridiculed by Dodart, 97

Terrasson, abbé Jean Baptiste, tries to revive natural history of plants in 1709, 114

Teste-morte.See distillants

Theophrastus, 70 , 73 , 146

theories of challenged, 75

Thévenot, Melchisédech, 36 , 201 , 202 , 203

associated with both Academy and Bibliothèque du roi, 39 , 51 , 285 n.4

role of in Academy, 182

as sponsor of scientific meetings, 196

Thuret, Isaac and Jacques, clockmakers, 43 , 44 , 193 , 317 n.1

Torricelli, Evangelista, 155

Torricellian void, 155 , 156

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 18 , 23 , 25 , 58 , 184 , 194 , 201 , 202 , 209 , 214 , 215 , 222 , 225 , 300 n.40, 309 n.1, 328 -329 n.16, 331 n.61, 331 -332 n.63, 337 n.115

on anatomy and physiology of plants, 141 , 142 , 146 , 147 , 148 , 150 , 151 , 153 -154, 158 , 165

and Bourdelin, 90 , 94 , 111

career of, 20 , 107 , 172

and classification of plants, 59 , 75

as collector, 195

death of, 187

describes plants, 111 , 113

and Dodart, 103 , 111 , 113 -115

Élémens de botanique of, 58 , 80 , 113 , 222

expeditions of, 107 , 209

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris of, 113 , 114 -115

and Jardin royal, 38 , 197 -198

and natural history of plants, 111 , 113 , 114 , 115

role of in Academy, 24 , 111 , 113 -115

Transpiration: in humans, 99

in plants, 141 , 164

Travel, 23 , 199 , 201 -202, 202 -203

books about for sale in Paris, 191

grand tour of continent, 198 , 200

inspires scientific inquiry, 20 , 22 -23, 58 , 59 , 212 -213.

See also Expeditions

Truchet, Jean, called père Sébastien, 195 , 196 , 293 n.25

Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walther, count of, 36

Tuillier, father and son, physicians, 174 -175, 176 , [204]