Talk:René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
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The 2004 Encyclopaedia Britannica has him hyphenated as "René-Antoine". Online sources seem to vary - anybody got anything authoritative as to which is correct (or perhaps he had it both ways, so to speak). OpenToppedBus - Talk 13:15, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
"His greatest work is the Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes". It's a weasel worded statements. On the French version of the article of Wikipedia, his work on metallurgy is define as "the peak of his scientific work" (that may also be a weasel).
Cet ouvrage, qu'il écrit alors, est fondateur de la sidérurgie scientifique et reste le sommet de son œuvre scientifique.
I'm a mechanical engineer so I think the work he did on siderurgy is more important but a specialist in flora will not have the same opinion I presume. I'll change the sentence to "One of his greatest work ..."--Julien Guyonnet 09:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC) PS : "the Mémoires pour servir a à l'histoire des insectes" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julien.guyonnet (talk • contribs) 09:06, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
