Jean-Baptist-Marie Bucquet

Jean-Baptiste Bucquet, born in February 18th 1746 with Paris and died in January 24th 1780, is a Scientifique French, chemist, member of the Academy of Science, distinguished doctor and royal critic.

Biography

Jean-Baptiste Bucquet gave a course deprived in his clean Laboratoire, then became professor of Chimie and Natural history to the Medical school. An easy elocution and an excellent method attracted much pupils to him, among whom one was not long in noticing Antoine François de Fourcroy, which succeeded to him and exceeded it, by agreeing that it owed with his Master his taste and its manner of studying.

Member of the Academy of Science, it undertook research with Lavoisier and V of the thirteen books of laboratory of Lavoisier divides into volumes it, partly, was written hand of Bucquet which wrote little.

Bucquet was intended to make make great progress with science; but death took it from 55 years, the January 24th 1780. In the last days of its disease, finding relief only by the use of sulphuric ether, it took some so frequently and with so great amounts, which it accelerated its end. It is ensured that it took per day two pints of ether and hundred grains of Opium. Bucquet did not make key remarkable discoveries, but he worked much, and prepared the pneumatic Révolution.

Publications

There are of him some particular essays inserted in the academic collections:
  1. In the collection of the foreign scientists of the Academy of Science :
    1. physico-chmiques Experiments on the air which is released from the bodies in the time of their decomposition, and that one knows under the vulgar name of air fixes (T. 7);
    2. Memories on some circumstances which accompany the decomposition, of sulfate of ammonia far the quicklime, by the unaltered metal ones and their lime, relalivement at the properties allotted to the air fixes (T. 9);
    3. Analysis of the Séolithe (ibid);
    4. Memory on several combinations saltworks of the Arsenic, in 2 parts (ibid);
    5. Memory on the analysis of blood , read with the Academy of Science in 1774 (ibid).
  2. In the collection of the company of medicine :
    1. Memory on the analysis of opium .

It published:

  1. Ergo digestio fdimentorum will vera digestio chimica, dissertatio , Paris, in-4°.
  2. Introduction to the study of the natural bodies, drawn from the mineral kingdom . Paris, Jean-Th. Roughcasting, 1771. The conferences given by Bucquet were the first to combine chemistry and Minéralogie; The third volume on the animal substances was prepared but published forever.
  3. Introduction to the study of the natural bodies, drawn from the vegetable kingdom . Paris, Widow Roughcasting, 1773. The results of the analysis of the vegetable substances by heat and the extraction with solvents are given. This work was rented by Fourcroy. “This last work, known as Fourcroy, was in its most complete time and the most methodical table of the vegetable analysis. ”;
  4. Memory on the way in which the animals are affected by the various mephitic gaseous fluids , 1778, in 12.
  5. Rapport on the antisyphilitic analysis of the rob of Boyveau-Laffecteur , Paris, 1779, in-8°.

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