Vaucanson (possible spoiler stuff)

[Joe Varo]

On Fri, 9 May 1997, davemarc wrote:
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> Vaucanson, Jacques de...(1709-82) Engineeer and inventor, born in Grenoble,
> France.  He went to Paris to study mechanics, and became adept at
> constructing automata such as a duck which swam, quacked, flapped its
> wings, and swallowed its food, developing for this delicate machine tools
> of lasting importance.

Am I mistaken, or was this guy featured in Lempriere's Dictionary?

Joe