    
Title: Horace-Benedict de Saussure Description: Horace-Benedict de Saussure (1740-1799), Swiss aristocrat, physicist, inventor and Alpine traveler and climber, who conducted extensive botanical studies of the Alps, concentrating on the geology and physics of the region; he climber the lower peaks of the Matterhorn in 1789; to determine a true theory of the earth, he expanded his geological observations to include close studies of the strata of the Alps, its rocks, fossils, minerals, water and the composition and transparency of air; he also created many inventions to aid his Alpine studies, including those that estimated the blueness of the sky and the clearness of the atmosphere; aristocrats; botanists; botany; geologists; geology; inventors; Keywords: mountain climbers, mountaineers, mountains, physicists Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2475 x 2856 (7.07 MPixels) (1.15) Print Size: 21.0 x 24.2 cm; 8.3 x 9.5 inches File Size: 20.25 MB (21,228,874 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095663 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
