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Born 1698 • Catalonia • Spain
Died September 8, 1761 (aged 63) • Paris • France
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal
John By: Rideau Canal
John By
British engineer
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Karl Terzaghi
American engineer
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Squire Whipple
American engineer
Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon
French naturalist
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel
French engineer
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-born engineer and inventor
Gribeauval 12-pounder cannon
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
French officer and engineer
Jean-Victor Poncelet, detail of a lithograph by Patout, 1849.
Jean-Victor Poncelet
French mathematician
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Marc Séguin, the Elder
French engineer
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Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist
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Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal
French poet
Jean Perronet: Pont de la Concorde
Jean Perronet
French engineer
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Marc-René, marquis de Montalembert
French general
Henri-Gratien, Comte Bertrand
Henri-Gratien, Comte Bertrand
French engineer
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Abraham de Fabert
marshal of France