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He was born in Geneva to French parents, his mother a descendant of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné. He studied medicine in Paris and practiced there for several years before returning to Switzerland to devote his life to mathematics and, in particular, a search for the mechanisms of gravity.

He proposed a kinetic theory of gravity and, in 1774, realised an early electric telegraph. The telegraph had a separate wire for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet and its range was only between two rooms of his home.

He was a close associate of Charles BonnetCharles Bonnet ( March 13, 1720 May 20, 1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century. He made law his profession, but his favourite pursui.

Bibliography

• "Lucrèce newtonien", Mémoires de l'Académie de Berlin , (1782)
• Some other fragments together with a biographical notice were published in Geneva in 1805 by Antoine François, l'abbé Prévost .