Saussure, Horace-Benedict

Saussure, Horace-Benedict de (1740-1799) Swiss aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller he directed his attention to the geology and physics of that region he made experiments with various forms of hygrometer in all climates and at all temperatures. 

Here one can easily see how the eruption or extraction of mites from the skin would lead to the belief that they are themselves a morbid product of the body. And Aristotle explicitly says that flesh must be the matter out of which such insects come. Even such a seemingly incorruptible matter as snow has its characteristic living product. When old snow turns red, Aristotle says Hist. an. 552b6-8), it can generate small insects. It is said that this observation of insect-populated algae growing on snow was not remarked again until 1778, by the Swiss naturalist Horace-Benedict de Saussure. 

Saussure, Nicolas-Theodore de (1767-1845) Swiss botanist and naturalist from Geneve who made seminal advances in phytochemistry oldest son of Horace-Benedict de Saussure. 

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