Mathurin Jacques Brisson | |
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| Born | 30 April 1723 Fontenay-le-Comte |
| Died | 23 June 1806 (aged 83) Croissy-sur-Seine |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Ornithologie |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology, ornithology, entomology |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Briss. |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Brisson |
Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.
Brisson was born at Fontenay-le-Comte. The earlier part of his life was spent in the pursuit of natural history; his published works in this field included Le Règne animal (1756) [1] and the highly regarded Ornithologie (1760).[2]
As a young man, he was a disciple and assistant of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. For a period of time he was an instructor of physical sciences and natural history to the family of the monarch.[3] He held the chair of physics at the College of Navarre, and from 1759 was a member of the Academy of Sciences.
A significant work involving the "specific weight of bodies" was his Pesanteur Spécifique des Corps (1787).[4] In his investigations of electricity, Brisson was opposed to the theories of Priestley and Franklin.[5]
He died at Croissy-sur-Seine near Paris.
Publications
- Regnum animale in classes IX distributum sive Synopsis methodica. Haak, Paris, Leiden 1756–62.
- Ornithologia, sive Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates. Bauche, Paris, Leiden 1760–63, with engraved illustrations by François-Nicolas Martinet.
- Supplementum Ornithologiæ sive Citationes, descriptionesque antea omissæ & species de novo adjectæ, ad suaquaque genera redactæ. Paris 1760.
- Lettres de deux Espagnols sur les manufactures. Vergera 1769.
- Dictionnaire raisonné de physique. Thou, Paris 1781–1800.
- Observations sur les nouvelles découvertes aërostatiques. Lamy, Paris 1784.
- Pesanteur spécifique des corps. Paris 1787.
- Traité élémentaire ou Principes de physique. Moutard & Bossange, Paris 1789–1803.
- Trattato elementare ovvero Principi di fisica. Grazioli, Florenz 1791.
- Die spezifischen Gewichte der Körper. Leipzig 1795.
- Suplemento al Diccionario universal de física. Cano, Madrid 1796–1802.
- Principes élémentaires de l'histoire naturelle et chymique des substances minérales. Paris 1797.
- Anfangsgründe der Naturgeschichte und Chemie der Mineralien. Mainz 1799.
- Instruction sur les nouveaux poids et mesures. Paris 1799.
- Elémens ou Principes physico-chymiques. Bossange, Paris 1800.
- Elements of the natural history and chymical analysis of mineral substances. Ritchie, Walker, Vernor & Hood, London 1800.
- Tratado elemental ó principios de física. Madrid 1803/04.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brisson, Mathurin Jacques". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the - ^ Google Books La Regne Animal.
- ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). (Volumes 1-6 and Supplement). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51902.
- ^ Swainson, William. Taxidermy : bibliography and biography. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. pp. 139–141. Note that page 141 is before page 140.
- ^ Gallica Pesanteur Spécifique des Corps.
- ^ The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge ..., Volume 6 edited by Charles Knight
External links
- Works by or about Mathurin Jacques Brisson at Internet Archive
- Gallica has a free digital download of Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques Ornithologia sive Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates Leiden (1760–1763) in Microforme The French word for Search is Recherche.
- Dictionnaire raisonné de physique, 2nd éd, Planches - Linda Hall Library