les importants, consequential people

Pagre 106. — I. Leuwenhoek et Hartsoeker: Antonius van Leeuwenhoek (La^-ven-hook)^ 1 632-1 723, Dutch naturalist, one of the most successful pioneers in the use of the microscope; Niklaas

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Hartsoeker {Hdri' -soO'ker\ 1656-1725, Dutch physicist and histologist.

Page 109* — I. Swammerdam, celebrated Dutch naturalist (1637-1680).

2. Reaumur, French physicist and naturalist, inventor of the thermometer which beaw his name (1683-1757).

Pagre 110. — I. 2t Pheure que jt vous parle; the story is laid in 1737 and the war here referred to is that between the Turks and Russians, 1 736-1 739. By the tas de boue in line 22 Crimea is meant, which was not annexed to Russia until 1783.

Pagre 112* — i. Descartes, Rene Descartes (i 596-1650) famous French philosopher, physicist and geometrician.