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Transcribed bySteve van Dulken

Surname  Rochon    
First names  Alexis-Marie    
Rank/ occupation  Scientist    
Death date  5 Apr 1817    
Place of death  Paris    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  1817 Suppl. Part I    
Page number  638    
Detail  At Paris, Alexis-Marie Rochon, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He was born at Brest, in 1741, nominated correspondent to the Academy in 1765; and afterwards astronomer to the Navy. He discovered the property of double refraction possessed by crystal; and hence originated the ingenious micrometer of his invention [Extra material, 1817 Suppl. Part II, pages 637-638, adds that was in the East Indies, and left the Isle of France in 1772].    
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