BERNARD PALISSY (1499-1589) A sixteenth century leader in chemical technolog and scientiGc thought, he proclaimed in France, as Francis Jacicon did in England, the superiority of experience over the authority of the masters and the speculations of the philosophers. He invented enameled pottery, set up ufactory, andmanufactured beautiful pieces on which the forms of animals and plants are r e p r o d u d in their natural colors. He studied chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and agriculture, and lectured on these sub-
jects a t Paris where he lived for a time at the Tuileries. He was the first a t Paris to institute a mineralogical and geological collection. His numerous works were written in French, and in such excellent lnnguaqe that they are still studied as models by the school children ot Fmnce. For his devotion to Calvinism he suffered imprisonment a t various times and finally death by burning a t the stake. (Contributed by T m n q L. Davis.)
