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Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont

French geologist · France · Politicians · Lived 1798 to 1874 · aged 75

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Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist. Among his ideas was that mountains were created in a series of episodes over geological time due to the cooling and shrinking of the earth.

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Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour1860
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wollaston Medal
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

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Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist. Among his ideas was that mountains were created in a series of episodes over geological time due to the cooling and shrinking of the earth. He also suggested that there was a pattern in the orientation of the mountain systems of the world which followed a system of five circles meeting at points on the earth that marked the points of a polyhedron.

Country
France
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1798 to 1874 · aged 75

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