Tableau méthodique des minéraux, 1784.

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Tableau méthodique des minéraux, 1784.

Bound autograph manuscript of Daubenton's 1784 work on the classification and properties of minerals.

1 v. (36 p.) ; 23 cm.

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Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799

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Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716-1799) was a pioneering French naturalist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, lecturer of natural history at the college of medicine (1775) and professor of zoology at the Collège de France (1778), first director of the Museum of Natural History in 1793 (formerly Jardin des Plantes in Paris). In 1742, the naturalist Georges Buffon asked him to prepare anatomical descriptions for a work on natural history (Histoire naturelle, 1794-1804), work h...