Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest
id:
jacques-barth-lemy-micheli-du-crest-244-2004852
title:
Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest
text:
Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest was a military engineer, physicist and cartographer from the Republic of Geneva, now in Switzerland. Born into the aristocracy, he eventually fled to France as an enemy of Geneva and spent his later years in Aarburg Castle as a political prisoner. During his time there, he mapped the Alps accurately using rudimentary tools. One of his other major accomplishments whilst in exile was to create a thermometer and a temperature scale, which was commonly used in Swi
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Barth%C3%A9lemy_Micheli_du_Crest
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-14T05:59:57Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q117932","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117932"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Jacques-Barth%C3%A9lemy_Micheli_du_Crest.jpg","width":727,"height":949}
fields total:
13
integrity:
14