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Paris Courtanvaux Colombes 1759 SIT
Submitted by PerkinsJohn on September 10, 2014 - 4:07amSite Description:
Country house in the present-day suburb of Colombes, in the north-west of Paris.
Date First Recorded:
1759
End Date:
1781 Jul 7th
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Physical Description:
Laboratory was in the main house overlooking a small court and the garden.
Site Activities:
HM Rouelle ran his lab.
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Notes:
Courtanvaux also had a mineral collection, a pharmacy and an observatory there. His library, and probably a part of his collection of mathematical and physical instruments, seems to have been in his hotel on the rue de Richelieu. He had an a laboratory and a collection of machines in his apartment at Versailles and a pottery works in his Chateau at Ancy-le-France.
The observatory was in a tower which was used as the station on the Paris Argenteuil railway line when it was opened in 1851. It was demolished in 1887. On 3 June 1769 Jean Bernouilli did observations on the transit of Venus there. A photo of the
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Detailed Reference:
ET LV/41, 7/8/81, inventaire après deces
Detailed Reference:
8/1759, p. 549