Antoine Baumé

Antoine Baume ( born February 26, 1728 in Senlis, † October 15th 1804 in Paris) was a French chemist and pharmacist who invented a hydrometer whose graduation was named after him ( degrees Baume, unit ° Bé ).

Baume led 1752 in Paris, a pharmacy and was built in 1787 members of the Collège de Pharmacie. Developed by him with the Scaled Baume scale has made it possible to determine the density of sulfuric acid or electroplating baths. Also improved distillation units have been constructed by Baume.

Baume was from 1773 a member of the Académie des sciences.

Works

• Éléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique, 1762
• Manuel de ou Chemistry more exposé of opérations de la et de leurs produits Chemistry more, 1763
• Dictionnaire des arts et métiers, 1766
• Handbook of vagina art ..., 1774
• Illustrated experimental Chimie, volume 2 Fritsch, Leizig 1775 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• Elemens de pharmacie théorique et pratique. - Nouvelle Ed. -. Samson, Paris 1770 Digitized edition
• Eléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique. - 3rd ed - Samson, Paris 1773 Digitized edition.
• Eléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique. - 4th ed - Paris: Samson, 1777 Digitized edition.
• Eléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique. - 5th ed - Paris: Samson, 1784 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.

• Pharmacist
• Chemists ( 18th century )
• Member of the Académie des sciences
• Frenchman
• Born in 1728
• Died in 1804
• Man