Nollet, Jean

Nollet, Jean Antoine. Legons de physique experimentale, 6 vols. (Paris les freres Guerin, 1743-1748). 

Fig. 19.12. Abbe Jean-Antoine Nollet s experiments with the electrostatic spraying of liquids.

Another of the early experimenters with phosphorus was the Abb6 J.-A. Nollet, who watched Jean Hellot and others demonstrate its properties before die French Academy of Sciences in 1737 (32). The procedure was described in detail in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences for that year and later in P.-J. Macquer s Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry. Even in the eighteenth century, chemists had... 

The Abbe Jean-Antoine Nollet, in his Legons de physique experi-mentale, mentioned the cold fight of the Bologna stone and the sulphurous odor which the flame imparted to it. The odor that the Bologna stone acquires on passing through the flame, said he, gives sufficient evidence that these natural sulphurs have been liberated from the terres-... 

Ramez Bahige Maluf, Jean Antoine Nollet and Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth Century France, Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oklahoma, 1985 John Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th 18th Centuries (University of California Press, 1979), 279-289 and 352-362 Simon Schaffer, Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century, History of Science 21, 1983, 1-43 Geoffrey V. Sutton, Science for a Polite Society (Westview, 1995), 223-240. 

Pieter van Musschenbroek, Essai de physique (Leyden, 1739) Jean Antoine Nollet, Legom de physique experimentale (Paris Guerin, 1743-1748). These were major texts in experimental physics at the time John Heilbron, Elements of Early Modem Physics (University of California Press, 1982), 6-7. 

The French abbot Jean-Antoine Nollet was interested in bioelectric phenomena and made use of electrostatic machines and Leyden jars for electrotherapy. His book Lettre sur Velectricite was published in Paris in 1753, and in it he referred to Franklins s work. It is said that under the French king Louis XV (reigned 1715—1774), the whole court se fait... 

AdS 1748, m 57-101 (loi) Plate V, fig. 10. Jean Antoine Nollet (Pimpre, Noyon, 19 November 1700-Paris, 25 April 1770) was of poor peasant family, was educated at Clermont, and worked in Reaumur s laboratory. He became professor of experimental philosophy in the... 

Osmosis, or the net transfer of solvent from a dilute to a more concentrated solution across a suitable membrane, had been known since 1748 when the Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet (1700-1770) noticed that a pig s bladder covering a container of alcoholic solution was ruptured when immersed in water. The phenomenon of osmosis could only be studied properly when sufficiently strong membranes could be produced to withstand the pressure generated. It was Moritz Traube (1826-1894) who discovered in 1867 that a strong membrane could be prepared by precipitating copper ferrocyanide in the walls of a porous pot. He was able to show that for a given solution osmosis occurred until a certain pressure was reached, which is called the osmotic pressure of the solution. In 1877 the German botanist... 

French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet discovers osmotic... 

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