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Swiss physician, surgeon and naturalist
Louis Jurine
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Born
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1751-02-06
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6 February 1751
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Died
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(1819-10-20)
(aged 68)
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Medical career
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Profession
| Surgeon
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physician
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naturalist
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Louis Jurine
(
French:
[?y?in]
; 6 February 1751 ? 20 October 1819) was a
Swiss
physician
,
surgeon
and
naturalist
mainly interested in
entomology
. He lived in
Geneva
.
Surgeon
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He studied surgery in
Paris
and quickly acquired a great reputation for his expertise in medicine and natural history beyond that which he had in Geneva. He taught courses in anatomy and surgery at the Societe des Arts in Geneva and was made honorary professor of zoology at the Academy (today:
University of Geneva
). He also founded a maternity hospice in 1807 and was awarded prizes for his work on the gasses of the human body, artificial feeding of infants, and pectoral angina.
Naturalist
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Upon learning of
Spallanzani's
experiments with bats, in which Spallanzani showed that bats do not rely on sight when navigating in darkness, Jurine conducted a series of experiments from which he concluded that bats use sound to navigate in darkness.
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Collections
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Jurine’s collections of
Hymenoptera
,
Coleoptera
,
Lepidoptera
and
Hemiptera
are in the
Natural History Museum of Geneva
.
Works
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- Nouvelle methode de classer les Hymenopteres et les Dipteres. Hymenopteres.
Geneve (J.J. Paschoud) 1807. (Only 250 copies of this work were issued.)
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- Observations sur les ailes des hymenopteres.
Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino
24
(1820): 177?214.
- Histoire des monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Geneve.
I-XVI, 1-260, 22 plates, Geneve (J.J. Paschoud) 1820.
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See also
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References
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See:
- Peschier (1798)
"Extraits des experiences de Jurine sur les chauve-souris qu'on a prive de la vue"
(Extracts of Jurine's experiments on bats that have been deprived of sight),
Journal de physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle
… ,
46
: 145?148. [in French]
- English translation: (Peschier) (1798)
"Experiments on bats deprived of sight,"
Philosophical Magazine
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: 136?140. From p. 140: "From these experiments the author concludes: … that the organ of hearing appears to supply that of sight in the discovery of bodies, and to furnish these animals with different sensations to direct their flight, and enable them to avoid those obstacles which may present themselves."
- Sigrist, Rene; Barras, Vincent; Ratcliff, Marc,
Louis Jurine, chirurgien et naturaliste (1751?1819)
(Chene-Bourg, Switzerland: Bibliotheque d'Histoire des Sciences, 1999). [in French] (with list of works)
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