Jean-Augustin Barral

Jean -Augustin Barral ( born January 31, 1819 in Metz, † September 10, 1884 in Fontenay -sous -Bois ) was a French agricultural scientists, chemists, and popular science writer.

Barral studied at the Ecole Polytechnique and was a professor of chemistry. He was editor of the magazine La Démocratie Pacifique by Victor Considerant and with Jacques Alexandre Bixio founder of the Journal d'agriculture pratique, which he published in 1837. He wrote numerous popular science articles in the Revue des Deux Mondes, Annales de chimie et in de physique and in the Dictionnaire des arts et manufactures. In 1865, he founded the press scientifique des deux mondes and 1866, the Journal de l'agriculture.

He wrote many popular science books, especially on agriculture and irrigation. Barral was permanent secretary of the Société nationale d' agriculture de France.

With Bixio he undertook in 1850 a balloon ascent to measure temperature and composition of the atmosphere at different altitudes. With François Arago he wrote a popular book on astronomy.

He is one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower.

  • Agronomists
  • Chemists ( 19th century)
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1819
  • Died in 1884
  • Man
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