Jean-Baptiste Biot, Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne, as quoted by John Maxson Stillman, The Story of Early Chemistry (1924)
• More succinctly, "wisest of the rich and the richest of the wise", as quoted in Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. 1999. Cavendish: The Experimental Life. Rev. ed. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press.
• More succinctly, "wisest of the rich and the richest of the wise", as quoted in Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. 1999. Cavendish: The Experimental Life. Rev. ed. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press.
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He was the wealthiest of all scholars (savants) and probably also the most scholarly of all the wealthy.
— Jean-Baptiste Biot on Henry Cavendish
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• More succinctly, "wisest of the rich and the richest of the wise", as quoted in Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. 1999. Cavendish: The Experimental Life. Rev. ed. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot (April 21, 1774 – February 3, 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites. In the early 1800s, he studied the polarisation of light passing through chemical solutions, as well as the relationship between electrical current and magnetism. The Biot–Savart law, which describes the magnetic field generated by a steady current, is named after him and Félix Savart.
About Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot (April 21, 1774 – February 3, 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites. In the early 1800s, he studied the polarisation of light passing through chemical solutions, as well as the relationship between electrical current and magnetism. The Biot–Savart law, which describes the magnetic field generated by a steady current, is named after him and Félix Savart.
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