D
Dalancé, maker of air pumps, 320 n.27
Dalesma, André, 55 , 193 , 211
Davison, William, 89
Deaubonne, Daniel, monk and instrument maker, 194
Deglos, received advance for expenses, 50 , 295 n.4, 333 n.72
Deiconti, 97
Delamare, Nicolas, 192
Denis, Jean Baptiste, sponsor of scientific meetings, 21 , 196
Descartes, René, 9 , 29 , 119 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 130 , 182 , 191
influence of, 23 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 141 , 196 , 199 , 222 .
See also Blood
Dictionaries, "battle of," 183 .
See also Académie française; Furetière
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 160 , 164 , 203 , 331 n.45
Dippy, interpreter, 298 n.14
assistants for, 210
autopsies of academicians and others, 38 , 54 , 292 n.14
of fish, 32
risks, of, 95
supply of animals for, 39 , 51 , 52 , 54 , 59
Distillants, 90 , 91 , 100 , 101 , 151 , 157 , 305 n.53
identification of, 93 , 94 , 95 , 109
oils in plants, 90 , 92 , 94 , 99 -100, 151 , 152
salts compared in animals, earths, plants, and waters, 150 , 152 -153
salts in plants, 90 , 93 , 94 , 99 -100, 153
testes-mortes of plants, 93 , 95 , 151
Distillation, 73 , 82 , 89 , 104 , 151
choice of plants for, 95 , 103
controversial, 90 -93, 94 , 96
Dodart's influence on,
method of, 90 , 91 -92, 93 -95
results of, 101 .
See also Medicine, and pharmacology
Divini, Eustachio, lens maker, 44
Do, enameler and instrument maker, 193
Dodart, Denis, 18 , 19 , 23 , 104 , 178 , 185 , 190 , 209 , 212 , 214 , 327 n.57, 328 n.9, 330 n.34, 333 n.70, 334 -335 n.91
career and education of, 19 , 26 , 103 , 172
and chemical analyses of plants, 82 , 89 , 90 , 91 -92, 93 -94, 96 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 104 , 109 , 303 -304 n.34, 304 -305 n.46, 331 n.61
and Duclos, 83 , 87 , 97 , 103 , 104 , 110 , 111 , 225
family of, 20
a Jansenist, 19 , 23 , 178 , 201
and natural history of plants, 48 , 55 , 75 , 79 , 80 , 103 , 107 , 110 , 111 , 114 , 115 , 300 n.40, 302 n.64, 317 n.5
and neologisms, 184
and poor, 171 , 176 , 178 -179
possible portrait of, 40
protégé of Perrault, 83
role of in Academy, 83 , 87 , 94 -95, 96 , 114 , 182
sends Mémoires des plantes to Grew, Locke, and Morison, 202 , 214
studies ergotism, 171 , 174 -176, 178 -179, 204
studies nutrition and medicine, 96 , 173
studies plant anatomy and physiology, 146 , 147 , 149 , 150 , 157 ;
and Tournefort, 113 , 114 -115
Dubé, Paul, physician, 174 , 178 , [204]
Duclos, Samuel Cottereau, 17 , 18 -19, 20 , 23 , 48 , 201 , 293 n.25, 299 n.32, 301 n.50, 305 n.46, 311 n.13, 312 -313 n.34, 316 n.37, 331 n.61
and chemical analysis, 18 , 48 , 50 , 73 , 82 , 83 , 89 , 90 , 92 , 93 , 96 -97, 98 , 102 , 108 , 109 , 169 , 172
and circulation of sap, 119 , 132 , 164
controversial views of, 18 -19, 43 , 83 , 87 , 96 -97, 173 , 205 , 206
and Dodart, 55 , 83 , 87 , 97 , 103 , 225
lodged at Bibliothèque du roi, 41 , 55
and natural history of plants, 73 -75, 79 , 80 , 82 -83, 87 , 90 , 97 , 98 , 103
and plant physiology, 150 , 152 -153
possible portrait of, 40
reviews work of Boyle, 214 , 335 n.101
role of in Academy, 83 , 87 , 182
and Tournefort, 114
Du Hamel, Jean Baptiste, 14 , 18 , 19 , 25 , 36 , 104 , 107 , 200 , 206 , 288 -289 n.42, 292 n.24, 331 n.61, 336 n.101
career of, 22 -23
as historian of Academy, 23 , 184 , 298 n.15
possible portrait of, 40
as purchasing agent for Academy, 51 , 285 n.4
role of in Academy, 13 , 14 , 18 , 22 , 110 , 182 , 318 n.14
Du Verney, Joseph Guichard, 18 , 26 , 59 , 172 , 214 , 293 n.29, 295 n.15, 331 n.61
attends meetings sponsored by Geoffroy, 196
career of, 21
Du Vivier, David, royal geographer, 211 , 333 n.76
as collector, 195