Amédée-François Frézier
French engineer and mathematician
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Amédée-François Frézier was a French military engineer, mathematician, spy, and explorer who is best remembered for bringing back five specimens of Fragaria chiloensis, the beach strawberry, from an assignment in South America, thus introducing... Wikipedia
Born: July 4, 1682, Chambéry, France
Died: October 14, 1773 (age 91 years), Brest, France
Books: A Voyage to the South-sea, and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714: Particularly Describing the Genius and Constitution of the Inhabitants, as Well Indians as Spaniards ..., Elemens de Stéréotomie, a L'Usage de L'Architecture - Primary Source Edition, and A Voyage to the South-Sea and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714: With a Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an Account of the Settlement, Commerce, and Riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay