Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle

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Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle (or Romé de L'Isle) (August 26, 1736 – March 7, 1790), French mineralogist, was born at Gray, in Haute-Sane. As secretary of a company of artillery he visited the East Indies and was taken prisoner by the English in 1761 and held in captivity for three years. Subsequently he became distinguished for hs researches on mineralogy and crystallography. He was the author of Essal de Cristallographic (1772), the second edition of which, regarded as his principal work, was published as Cristallographie (3 vols. and atlas, 1783). He died at Paris.

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