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La Beurthe, surgeon, 293 n.26
Laboratories, private, 27 , 55 .
See also Académie royale des sciences
La Brosse, Guy de, 71
La Chambre, Marin Cureau de, 17 , 171
books by read in Paris, 185
opposes neologisms, 183
La Chapelle. See Bessé de la Chapelle
La Faye, 294 n.40
Lagny, mathematical instrument maker, 44 , 192
Lagny, Thomas Fantet de, 36
Fellow of Royal Society, 202
La Hire, Gabriel Philippe de, 18 , 22 , 23 , 111
La Hire, Philippe de, 18 , 19 , 44 , 55 , 157 , 158 , 165 , 182 , 197 , 206 , 207 , 208 , 214 , 222 , 294 n.35, 296 n.21, 302 n.62, 324 n.5, 326 n.33, 331 n.61, 337 n.112
career of, 21 -22
on circulation of sap, 119 , 136 -137, 140 , 141 -142, 144
dissects fish, 32
keeps Huygens informed, 95 , 109 , 110
revives study of plant physiology, 110
role of in Academy, 182
studies fig and orange trees, 111
teaches at Collège royal, 197
La Hyre, Laurent, 21
La Londe, engineer, his arithmetic for engineers for sale, 191
Langlade, de, 172
Language, scientific, 22 , 27 , 223 , 318 n.6
in botany, 73 , 214 , 298 n.18
shift to vernacular, 73 -74, 75 , 88 , 127 -128, 153 , 182 , 183 -184, 223
in technology, 183
Languages: knowledge of, 200 , 298 n.15, 325 n.17, 335 n.100
study or teaching of, 20 , 21 , 328 n.65
Lannion, abbé Pierre de, 14 , 307 n.16
Lanterns, magic, 194
Lantin, Jean Baptiste, 201 , 204
La Quintinie, Jean de, 194 , 203 , 329 n.28
La Roque, abbé, sponsor of scientific meetings, 196
Le Bas, mathematical instrument maker, 44 , 192
Le Brun, Charles, autopsy of by Academy, 54
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 5 -8, 15 , 41
portraits of Academy by, 6 , 40 , 42
Lecture-demonstrations, scientific and medical, 182 , 196 .
See also Jardin royal
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van, 203 , 204
Le Febvre, Jean, 36
Le Febvre, Nicaise, chemist, 19 , 90 , 93 , 132 , 201
Le Gallois, Pierre, 181
Le Guern, mathematical instrument maker, 44
Leibniz, Gottfried, Wilhelm, 36 , 332 nn.65, 66
Lémery, Nicolas, 20 , 21 , 90 , 98 , 209
book for sale in Paris, 191
offers instruction in chemistry, 197
tested, 53 .
See also Borelly; Campani; Divini; Hartsoeker
Léonard (de Sainte Cathérine), père, 207
L'Hospital, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de Sainte-Mesme, 16 , 36
Lhwyd, Edward, 202
Librarian, royal, 24
Libraries, private, 182 , 185 , 215 .
See also Bibliothèque du roi
Life, ideas about nature of, 133
Linnaeus, Carl von, 20
Lister, Martin, 41 , 44 , 186 , 191 , 194 , 196 , 200 , 201 , 202 , 211 , 214 , 292 n.18, 294 n.40, 321 n.7, 325 n.19, 328 n.16, 337 n.113
Literacy in France, 184
Literature, scientific and technical: by academicians for sale in Paris, 191 , 192
Academy's use of, 213 -214, 215 , 309 n.1
herbals, 117
manuals for practitioners, 191
periodicals, 199
specialized bookshops for in Paris, 191 -192
tastes in, 184 -185.
See also Journal des sçavans ; Language; Philosophical Transactions
Locke, John, 44 , 159 , 187 , 193 , 194 , 200 , 202 -203, 305 n.58, 312 n.26, 327 n.46, 336 n.110
as scholarly and cultural center, 16 , 51 , 203
Longitude, problem of determining at sea, 32 , 49 , 52
Louis XIII, 171
Louis XIV, 20 , 23 , 34 , 169 , 170 , 172 , 178 , 193 , 201 , 221 , 226 , 293 n.32, 298 n.15
and individual academicians, 26 , 103 , 172
illness of, 103 , 108 , 109 , 172 , 225
nurseries and orangerie of, 74 , 110
patronage of sought by English savants, 203
portrait of, 6
visits Gobelins, 32 .
See also Académie royale des sciences: and Louis XIV; and war
Louvois, Michel François Le Tellier, marquis de, 13 , 14 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 24 , 32 , 82 , 208 , 225
appoints academicians, 52 , 53 , 54 , 56 , 223
compared with Colbert and Pontchartrain, 46 , 47 , 52 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 111
garden of, 194
and natural history of plants, 25 , 52 , 56 , 80 , 107 -111
policies of regarding Academy, 25 , 36 -38, 46 , 51 -56, 59 , 110 , 223
utilitarian demands of, 52 , 55 , 56 , 107 -110, 172
Louvre, headquarters of Academy from 1699, 39
LSD poisoning. See Ergotism
Luxembourg, Madeleine Charlotte de Clermont Tonnerre, duchesse de, 44
Lysergic acid diethylamide. See Ergot