Bouriot, Raymond François
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Nom
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Bouriot, Raymond François
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Date de naissance
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4 October 1734
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Date de mort
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27 June 1796
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Lieu de naissance
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Bazas (Gironde)
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Lieu de mort
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Bordeaux
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Couverture temporelle
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1760-1780
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Biographie
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The second son of Pierre Bouriot, a wealthy lawyer and sub-delegate of the intendant of the Guyenne, Bouriot became interested in optical instruments while completing his studies at the Sorbonne. At the same time as Lestang and Antheaume, he succeeded in making achromatic lenses using flint glass imported from England. The 3 June 1769, he observed the passage of Venus from the physics cabinet at La Muette using a 6 foot aqchromatic telescope of which he had himself made the objective glass. In 1772 he perfected a sphereometer which had been devised by Laroue, mirror-maker in the rue de la Verrerie, Bouriot's being the first sphereometer of any precision (1). In 1773, according to Magellan, he was working on hydrometers and aerometers. A member of the Eudiste order, 27 December 1771, Bouriot was named a canon and inhabited the Eudiste house in the Rue des Postes, close the workshop of the optician Gonichon. He was acquainted with Lavoisier to whom he gave a broken flint-glass lens for his burning-glass experiments. Thanks to his fortune, Bouriot was able to collect a good number of machines and pieces of physics apparatus, among them a powerful burning mirror. In 1778, after twenty years in Paris, Bouriot returned to Bazas. At the Revolution Bouriot refused to take the civic oath and was interned at Bordeaux where he died (2).
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Notes biographiques
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1 It is described in the Journal des Sçavans, December 1772, 828-29.
2 Notice largely based on Birembaut 158 n. 3.
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Les Tourettes, maison des Eudistes, rue des Postes Paris (Birembaut).
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Identifiant
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1245
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