Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
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Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
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Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle was a French priest, mathematician and inventor. He contributed 270 articles to the Encyclopédie in the subjects of arithmetic and geometry. In June 1747 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was the inventor of a primitive diving suit in 1775, which he called a "scaphandre" from the Greek words skaphe (boat) and andros (man) in his book Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre ou du bateau de l'homme. The invention of the Ab
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French priest, mathematician and inventor
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2024-01-07T22:29:33Z
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