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Mathurin Jacques Brisson
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<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul><li>Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1756). <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9672666n?rk=64378;0"><i>Le règne animal divisé en IX classes, ou Méthode contenant la division générale des animaux</i></a> (in French). Paris: Jean Baptiste Claude Bauche.</li> <li>—— (1760). <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51902"><i>Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (6 volumes and supplement)</i></a> (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. With uncoloured engraved illustrations by <a href="/facts/Fran%25C3%25A7ois-Nicolas_Martinet/A2DJlqT0">François-Nicolas Martinet</a>.</li> <li>—— (1769). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=esU-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3"><i>Lettres de deux Espagnols sur les manufactures</i></a> (in French). A Vergera.</li> <li>—— (1781). <i>Dictionnaire raisonné de physique (3 Volumes)</i> (in French). Paris: Leboucher, Lamy. <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k94847n">Volume 1</a>, <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k948480">Volume 2</a>, <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1513955n?rk=85837;2">Volume 3</a>.</li> <li>—— (1784). <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1513957g?rk=107296;4"><i>Observations sur les nouvelles découvertes aérostatiques et sur la probabilité de pouvoir diriger les ballons</i></a> (in French). Paris: Le Boucher.</li> <li>—— (1787). <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k94851w"><i>Pesanteur spécifique des corps. Ouvrage utile à l'histoire naturelle, à la physique, aux arts et au commerce</i></a> (in French). Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale.</li> <li>—— (1789). <i>Traité élémentaire, ou principes de physique. Fondés sur les connoissances les plus certaines, tant anciennes que modernes, & confirmés par l'expérience (3 Volumes)</i> (in French). Paris: Moutard. <a href="https://archive.org/details/b28776409_0001/page/n6/mode/1up">Volume 1</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/b28776409_0002/page/n7/mode/1up">Volume 2</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/b28776409_0001/page/n8/mode/1up">Volume 3</a>.</li> <li><i>Trattato elementare ovvero Principi di fisica.</i> Grazioli, Florenz 1791.</li> <li><i>Die spezifischen Gewichte der Körper.</i> Leipzig 1795.</li> <li><i>Suplemento al Diccionario universal de física.</i> Cano, Madrid 1796–1802.</li> <li>—— (1797). <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9648795r?rk=42918;4"><i>Principes élémentaires de l'histoire naturelle et chymique des substances minérales</i></a> (in French). Paris: Fermin Didot.</li> <li><i>Anfangsgründe der Naturgeschichte und Chemie der Mineralien.</i> Mainz 1799.</li> <li><i>Instruction sur les nouveaux poids et mesures.</i> Paris 1799.</li> <li>—— (1800). <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9800592q?rk=128756;0"><i>Élémens ou principes physico-chymiques, destinés à servir de suite aux principes de physique; à l'usage des écoles centrales</i></a> (in French). Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson.</li> <li><i>Elements of the natural history and chymical analysis of mineral substances.</i> Ritchie, Walker, Vernor & Hood, London 1800.</li> <li><i>Tratado elemental ó principios de física.</i> Madrid 1803/04.</li></ul> <ul><li> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/facts/Public_domain/YWKMDKw4">public domain</a>: <a href="/facts/Hugh_Chisholm/2vWblUBe">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "Brisson, Mathurin Jacques". <i><a href="/facts/Encyclop%25C3%25A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition/mPElbCRY">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%20Jacques%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%20J%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Brisson%2C%20M%2E%20J%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Mathurin%20Jacques%20Brisson%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Mathurin%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22M%2E%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Mathurin%20Brisson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Mathurin%20Jacques%20Brisson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Mathurin%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22M%2E%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22M%2E%20Jacques%20Brisson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%20Jacques%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%20J%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Brisson%2C%20M%2E%20J%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Brisson%2C%20M%2E%20Jacques%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Mathurin%20Brisson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Mathurin%20Jacques%20Brisson%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Mathurin%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20title%3A%22M%2E%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Mathurin%20Brisson%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Mathurin%20Jacques%20Brisson%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Mathurin%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20description%3A%22M%2E%20J%2E%20Brisson%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%20Jacques%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%20J%2E%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Mathurin%20Brisson%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Brisson%2C%20Mathurin%22%29%20OR%20%28%221723-1806%22%20AND%20Brisson%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about Mathurin Jacques Brisson</a> at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/">Gallica</a> has a free digital download of Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques <i>Ornithologia sive Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates</i> Leiden (1760–1763) in Microforme The French word for Search is Recherche.</li> <li><a href="http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/philsci/id/33183"><i>Dictionnaire raisonné de physique, 2nd éd, Planches</i></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200803205028/http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/philsci/id/33183">Archived</a> 2020-08-03 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> – <a href="/facts/Linda_Hall_Library/tu6UDWST">Linda Hall Library</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Swainson, William (1840). Taxidermy : bibliography and biography. Vol. -. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. pp. 139–141. Note that page 141 is before page 140. <a href="/wiki/William_Swainson" target="_blank">/wiki/William_Swainson</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Birembaut, Arthur (1958). "Les liens de famille entre Réaumur et Brisson, son dernier élève". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et de Leurs Applications. 11 (2): 167–169. doi:10.3406/rhs.1958.4400. <a href="http://www.persee.fr/doc/rhs_0048-7996_1958_num_11_2_4400" target="_blank">http://www.persee.fr/doc/rhs_0048-7996_1958_num_11_2_4400</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Merland, Constant (1883). "Mathurin-Jacques Brisson". Biographies vendéennes (in French). Vol. 2. Nantes, France: Vincent Forest & Émile Grimaud. pp. 1–47. <a href="https://archive.org/details/biographiesvend02merl/page/1/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/biographiesvend02merl/page/1/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Merland, Constant (1883). "Mathurin-Jacques Brisson". Biographies vendéennes (in French). Vol. 2. Nantes, France: Vincent Forest & Émile Grimaud. pp. 1–47. <a href="https://archive.org/details/biographiesvend02merl/page/1/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/biographiesvend02merl/page/1/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Stresemann, Erwin (1975). Cottrell, G. William (ed.). Ornithology From Aristotle to the Present. Translated by Epstein, Hans J.; Epstein, Cathleen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-0-674-64485-4. Originally published by F. W. Peters in 1951 as Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart. <a href="978-0-674-64485-4" target="_blank">978-0-674-64485-4</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Stresemann, Erwin (1975). Cottrell, G. William (ed.). Ornithology From Aristotle to the Present. Translated by Epstein, Hans J.; Epstein, Cathleen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-0-674-64485-4. Originally published by F. W. Peters in 1951 as Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart. <a href="978-0-674-64485-4" target="_blank">978-0-674-64485-4</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Brisson 1756. - 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. <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9672666n?rk=64378;0" target="_blank">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9672666n?rk=64378;0</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Brisson 1760. - —— (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. <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51902" target="_blank">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51902</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Newton, Alfred (1893–1896). A Dictionary of Birds. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 9. <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Newton" target="_blank">/wiki/Alfred_Newton</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Newton, Alfred (1893–1896). A Dictionary of Birds. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 9. <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Newton" target="_blank">/wiki/Alfred_Newton</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678. <a href="/wiki/Joel_Asaph_Allen" target="_blank">/wiki/Joel_Asaph_Allen</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Hemming, Francis, ed. (1958) [1911]. "Opinion 37: Shall the genera of Brisson's "Ornithologia," 1760, be accepted". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Vol. 1 Section B. London: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. pp. 87–88. <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34612774" target="_blank">http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34612774</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Hemming, Francis (1962). "Brisson, 1760 "Ornithologie" Proposed restriction on validation granted under the plenary powers to certain portions of that work Z.N.(S.) 702". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 19 (1): 9–14. <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12220868" target="_blank">http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12220868</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>China, W.E. (1963). "Direction 105: Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie: restriction to certain portions of that work of the validation granted under the Plenary Powers". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 20 (5): 343–344. <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12221684" target="_blank">http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12221684</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678. <a href="/wiki/Joel_Asaph_Allen" target="_blank">/wiki/Joel_Asaph_Allen</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Bruce, Murray (2003). "Foreword: A brief history of classifying birds". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D.A. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. pp. 11–43 [18]. ISBN 978-84-87334-50-4. <a href="978-84-87334-50-4" target="_blank">978-84-87334-50-4</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Stresemann, Erwin (1975). Cottrell, G. William (ed.). Ornithology From Aristotle to the Present. Translated by Epstein, Hans J.; Epstein, Cathleen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-0-674-64485-4. Originally published by F. W. Peters in 1951 as Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart. <a href="978-0-674-64485-4" target="_blank">978-0-674-64485-4</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Swainson, William (1840). Taxidermy : bibliography and biography. Vol. -. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. pp. 139–141. Note that page 141 is before page 140. <a href="/wiki/William_Swainson" target="_blank">/wiki/William_Swainson</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>Beauchet-Filleau, H.; Beauchet-Filleau, P. (1895). Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des familles du Poitou (in French). Vol. 2. Poitiers, France: Oudin. p. 6. <a href="https://archive.org/details/dictionnairehist02beau/page/6/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/dictionnairehist02beau/page/6/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Brisson 1787. - —— (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. <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k94851w" target="_blank">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k94851w</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>Knight, Charles, ed. (1856). The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. London: Bradbury & Evans. p. 923. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uJtlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA923" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=uJtlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA923</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>Beauchet-Filleau, H.; Beauchet-Filleau, P. (1895). Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des familles du Poitou (in French). Vol. 2. Poitiers, France: Oudin. p. 6. <a href="https://archive.org/details/dictionnairehist02beau/page/6/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/dictionnairehist02beau/page/6/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>