Talk:René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur

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The 2004 Encyclopaedia Britannica has him hyphenated as "René-Antoine". Online sources seem to vary - anybody got anything authoritative as to which is correct (or perhaps he had it both ways, so to speak). OpenToppedBus - Talk 13:15, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

"His greatest work is the Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes". It's a weasel worded statements. On the French version of the article of Wikipedia, his work on metallurgy is define as "the peak of his scientific work" (that may also be a weasel). Cet ouvrage, qu'il écrit alors, est fondateur de la sidérurgie scientifique et reste le sommet de son œuvre scientifique. I'm a mechanical engineer so I think the work he did on siderurgy is more important but a specialist in flora will not have the same opinion I presume. I'll change the sentence to "One of his greatest work ..."--Julien Guyonnet 09:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC) PS : "the Mémoires pour servir a à l'histoire des insectes" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julien.guyonnet (talk • contribs) 09:06, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Paper made from wood
Find it strange this article omits any mention of Réaumur being credited with the idea for paper manufacture (solely) from wood products. Is this apocryphal?

Refs:

http://www.papertrading.com/prod01.htm "A.D. 1719 - Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur suggests that paper could be made from wood in response to a critical shortage of paper making materials. At the time all paper was made from old clothes and rags. There were not enough rags to supply the ever increasing demand for paper. Reaumur was inspired by observing wasps building their nest."

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1052.htm "The French scientist, René Réaumur, came up with the solution in 1719. Look at North American wasps, he said -- what you and I call paper wasps. They make fine paper for their nests by chewing up wood and exuding it. And if they can do that, why can't we? Réaumur didn't actually make paper. But the idea stayed alive until a German clergyman, Jacob Schaffer, got his hands on it. Between 1765 and 1771 he wrote a huge treatise on making paper from alternate fibers. He included actual paper samples that he'd made from wasp nests and directly from various woods."

Georgebaily (talk) 10:15, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Agree that it deserved some mention and added a line, although did not locate original documents to confirm that he wrote as reported.GeeBee60 (talk) 13:34, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

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