Mathurin Jacques Brisson was a French zoologist and natural philosopher born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, in 1723. Employed by René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, he curated natural history collections and was influenced by Carl Linnaeus. His notable works include Le Règne animal (1756) and Ornithologie (1760), praised by Alfred Newton. Though Brisson’s Latin bird names didn't follow binomial nomenclature and aren’t recognized by the ICZN, his introduced genera names are accepted. He was an Academy of Sciences member and later became a physics professor at the College of Navarre. Brisson died near Versailles in 1806.
Publications
- Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1756). Le règne animal divisé en IX classes, ou Méthode contenant la division générale des animaux (in French). Paris: Jean Baptiste Claude Bauche.
- —— (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (6 volumes and supplement) (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. With uncoloured engraved illustrations by François-Nicolas Martinet.
- —— (1769). Lettres de deux Espagnols sur les manufactures (in French). A Vergera.
- —— (1781). Dictionnaire raisonné de physique (3 Volumes) (in French). Paris: Leboucher, Lamy. Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3.
- —— (1784). Observations sur les nouvelles découvertes aérostatiques et sur la probabilité de pouvoir diriger les ballons (in French). Paris: Le Boucher.
- —— (1787). Pesanteur spécifique des corps. Ouvrage utile à l'histoire naturelle, à la physique, aux arts et au commerce (in French). Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale.
- —— (1789). Traité élémentaire, ou principes de physique. Fondés sur les connoissances les plus certaines, tant anciennes que modernes, & confirmés par l'expérience (3 Volumes) (in French). Paris: Moutard. Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3.
- 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.
- —— (1797). Principes élémentaires de l'histoire naturelle et chymique des substances minérales (in French). Paris: Fermin Didot.
- Anfangsgründe der Naturgeschichte und Chemie der Mineralien. Mainz 1799.
- Instruction sur les nouveaux poids et mesures. Paris 1799.
- —— (1800). Élémens ou principes physico-chymiques, destinés à servir de suite aux principes de physique; à l'usage des écoles centrales (in French). Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson.
- 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.
- 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.
External links
- Works by or about Mathurin Jacques Brisson at the 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 Archived 2020-08-03 at the Wayback Machine – Linda Hall Library
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