Preferred Citation: Stroup, Alice. A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft587006gh/


 
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Wallis, John, 164

Water:desalination of, 108 , 109 , 332 n.67, 336 n.102

role of in growth of plants, 150 , 152

as ultimate source of matter, 152 .

See also Chemical analysis; Versailles, water supply of

Watercolors. See Illustrations; Gaston

Willughby, Francis, 200 , 214

Winds, studies of, 203

Wines. See Chemical analysis


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Preferred Citation: Stroup, Alice. A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft587006gh/