Sage, Balthazar George
Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind

Sage, Balthazar George

Boilly, Julien Léopold, 1796-1874 · [ca. 1750–1920]

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Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind

Sage, Balthazar George, 1740-1824. French chemist and minerologist who became blind in 1805. Portrait shows a man with white British-style wig wearing a blindfold. Member of the Order of Saint Michael. Text: Institut Royal de France. Acad. des sciences (Mineralogie). Sage, Balthazar Georg. Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel. Ne a Paris le 7 Mai 1740, elu a l'Academie, en 1771, a l'Institut en 1801

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