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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure: Horace-Benedict de Saussure monument at Chamonix.
 
 
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1740-1799 Swiss geologist remembered for his extensive alpine investigations chronicled in his Voyages dans les Alpes (1779-96) and theories regarding the formation of the Alps derived therefrom. Saussure made careful meteorological measurements,...
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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (February 17, 1740 - January 22, 1799) was a Swiss aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism....


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Saussure and his Interpreters.(Book Review)
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Saussure and his Interpreters. By Roy HARRIS. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2001. vi+224 pp. 44[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7486-1308-0. In a very readable study, Roy Harris examines the mis/representation of Saussurean ideas by certain linguists and by French thinkers of a Structuralist and...


 

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