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Alexis Rochon (1741-1817)

Alexis-Marie de Rochon, known as Abbé Rochon, was born in Brest, France on 21 February 1741, and died in Paris on 5 April 1817. He was a French astronomer, physicist and traveller. He worked on lens design and crystal optics, inventing the Rochon prism polariser.

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A voyage to Madagascar, and the East Indies. By the Abbe Rochon, Member of the Academies of Sciences of Paris and Petersburgh, Astronomer of the Marine, Keeper of the King’s Philosophical Cabinet, Inspector of Machines, Money, &c. Translated from the French. Illustrated with an accurate map of the island of Madagascar. To which is added, a Memoir on the Chinese trade.

Alexis Rochon
1792

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