Marc-Auguste Pictet [SEP] place of death
Marc-Auguste Pictet
Marc-Auguste Pictet (; July 23, 1752 – April 19, 1825) was a scientific journalist and an experimental natural philosopher (physicist, chemist, meteorologist, astronomer) born in Geneva, Republic of Geneva.
Pictet's main contribution to learning was his editing of the "Bibliothèque britannique" (1796-1815), devoted to the diffusion on the Continent of scientific knowledge produced in Great Britain. His own scientific research was leaning towards physical sciences, especially calorimetry, but also astronomy,
Marc-Auguste Pictet ("Sciences & Arts"), Charles Pictet de Rochemont ("Literature") and Frédéric-Guillaume Maurice ("Agriculture"). This journal was succeeded in 1816 by the "Bibliothèque universelle des sciences, belles-lettres, et arts", which kept the same editors until 1824–25 and was also published in three series, one focusing on science and techniques, another on literature and a third one on agriculture.
After Pictet's death (1825), the periodical was taken over