After more than a century, Horace. Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February – 22 January ) was a Genevan [1] geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.
Title: The Life of Horace Horace Bénédict de Saussure (born Feb. 17, , Geneva, Switz.—died Jan. 22, , Geneva) was a Swiss physicist, geologist, and early Alpine explorer who developed an improved hygrometer to measure atmospheric humidity.
This book has been Saussure, Horace Bénédict de (–99) A Swiss naturalist, Saussure made an extensive study of the structure of the Alps, described in the four volumes of Voyages dans les Alpes (–96). His theory was neptunian, but with uniformitarian overtones.
He had visited England Horace-Benedict de Saussure was Swiss physicist, geologist, and early Alpine explorer who also developed probably the first electrometer, a device for measuring electric potential by means of attraction or repulsion of charged bodies.
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Swiss geologist remembered for his extensive alpine investigations chronicled in his Voyages dans les Alpes () and theories regarding the formation of the Alps derived therefrom. Saussure made careful meteorological measurements, developed an improved thermometer and atmometer, and invented the hair hygrometer for measuring humidity (). 
Buy a copy of The Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (Febru - Janu) was a Swiss physicist and Alpine traveller. He was born at Conches near Geneva. Influenced by his father and his maternal uncle, Charles Bonnet, he devoted himself to botany.
Business, Finance & Law · Swiss physicist, geologist and botanist. Horace Bénédict de Saussure was professor at the University of Geneva and had a love of mountains, pioneering topographical studies of the Alps. After attending Geneva College from the age of six, he studied philosophy at the university and graduated in with a dissertation on the heat in the sun's.
Horace Benedict de Saussure Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February – 22 January ) was a Genevan [1] geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.