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(1767-07-25): Lavoisier visits the grave stone of Maupertuis at Dornach
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(1767-08-05): Lavoisier and Guettard climbed the highest peak of the Vosges mountains. During this part of the journey, they had taken a local artists [Mr Bidermann from Thann] along whom they had engaged to paint [eight] panoramic views of that region, a
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(1767-09-03): Lavoisier meets with the Stahlian chemist Spielmann and with Erhmann.
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(1767-10-06): Purchase of books in Strasbourg
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(1768): Lavoisier drafts a note on a new areometer
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(1768): Lavoisier writes an excerpt of a novel by Voltare in which the Fermiers généraux are criticized
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(1768): Lavoisier guides the construction of several areometers
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(1768-01-03): Lavoisier makes several thermometric observations with Réaumur's thermometer
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(1768-02-23): Lavoisier makes experiments with an air pump
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(1768-03): Enters the Ferme Générale as adjoint to Baudon
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(1768-03-28): At the Académie reads a paper on mineral waters of Franche-Comté, Champagne and Brie
P-V, 1768, fol. 53 b
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(1768-05): Memoir "sur la manière de composer des feux d'artifices colorés en bleu et en jaune" in which Lavoisier criticizes the theory of heat as motion
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(1768-05-02): Lavoisier signs agreement with François Baudon for one third interest in the lease of Jean Alaterre
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(1768-05-07): At the Académie: Lavoisier completes reading of memoir on mineral waters. Nollet and Macquer chose to report on it.
P-V, 1768, fol. 72 b
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(1768-05-11): Nollet and Macquer report favorably on Lavoisier's first memoir on mineral waters of Franche-Comté
P-V, 1768, fol. 73 b-77
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(1768-05-18): Nollet and Macquer report favorably on Lavoisier's second memoir on mineral waters of Franche-Comté. Memoirs shoud be printed in Savants étrangers
P-V, 1768, fols. 100-106
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(1768-05-18): Lavoisier and Jars get highest votes for place in the Académie ad adjoint chimiste left vacant by death of Théodore Baron (10 March, 1768)
P-V, 1768, fol. 90
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(1768-05-20): Letter of Comte de St. Florentin announcing choice of both Jars and Lavoisier, with Lavoisier as adjoint chimiste surnuméraire
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(1768-06-01): Jars and Lavoisier take their places as adjoint chimistes: letter of St. Florentin read to the Académie
P-V, 1768, June 1
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(1768-06-04): Lavoisier present at the Académie. Brisson and Lavoisier charged with examining table of weights of different substances submitted on beahlf of M. Thévenard
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(1768-06-08): Nollet on point of leaving for a voyage, Lavoisier asked to substitute for him examining the lanterns of M. Du Fourny de Villiers.
P-V, 1768, fol. 116 b
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(1768-06-11): Fougeroux and Lavoisier report vaguely but favorably on the bleaching process of M. Lapostolle
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(1768-06-26) (1768-07-21): Lavoisier begins experiments on the generation snails
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(1768-07-23): Le Roy and Lavoisier charged to examine the memoir of Cartier on hydrometers
P-V, 1768, fol. 163 b
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(1768-08): Lavoisier spoke before the Académie on cold effervescences in objection to a memoir of Demachy
BNF. Mss. Fr. 12306, fols. 123-124 (Corresp. Macquer)
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