Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien (Johannes Nicolaas Sebastiaan) Allamand
Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand ((in Dutch) Johannes Nicolaas Sebastiaan Allamand) (18 October 1716, or, according to others 18 September 1713 – 2 March 1787) was a Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher. He was born in Lausanne. At first he specialized in theology, and subsequently he came to the Netherlands, where he practised mathematics, physics, chemistry, and natural history, in […]