Jean-Baptiste Le Roy
(1720-1800)
French physicist and chemist
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Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (15 August 1720, in Paris – 20 January 1800, in Paris) was an 18th-century French physicist and one of the major contributors to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert for technology. The son of 18th-century Parisian clockmaker and watchmaker Julien Le Roy, he had three brothers: Pierre (1717–1785), a brilliant clock-maker in his own right, Julien-David (1724–1803), a neo-classical architect and archaeologist, and Charles a physician and Encyclopédiste.
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15 August 1720
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20 January 1800 (aged 79)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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