Annuaire météorologique pour l'an ...

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Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck
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Meteorology was the first scientific area in which Lamarck prepared a memoir. His meteorology was devoted to a search for those laws of nature which regulate climatic change. A great admirer of Benjamin Franklin, he thought such laws must exist because of Franklin's success in identifying lightning and terrestrial electricity.