Talk:Blaise de Vigenère

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Should the first description of the dry destilation of benzoic acid also be mentioned. This would make him a chemist or alchemist at least! I can do it if nobody opposes!Stone 14:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Please do! (If you can, it would be very helpful if you could include the source of your information, too). &mdash; Matt Crypto 14:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

NOTE ON BLAISE DE VIGENERE, JOHN FERGUSON, AND BENZOIC ACID. By T. S. PATTERSON, D.Sc., Ph.D., Gardiner Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Glasgow. Citing from the book 1608 Fev et dv Sel: That of Benzoine is more rare, and lesse known, and more laborious to make. Take Benzoin throughly beaten to grosse powder, and put it into a Cornue with fine Aqua vitae, which swimmeth thereover three or four fingers, and leave them so for two or three_daies upon a moderate fire of ashes, that the Aqua vitae may not distill, removing them every houre; this done, accommodate the Cornue upon the furnace with........

I lost the exact journal but it looks like JACS from the 1950. Stone 15:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Question: How to pronounce Vigenère?
I've heard Vigenère pronounced the way I would pronounce it, were it actually spelled vignère? (sort of vin-ier-ee) Is that right? Regards, Ben Aveling 00:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)