Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare
Jacques -Christophe Valmont de Bomare ( born September 17, 1731 in Rouen, † August 24, 1807 in Paris) was a French naturalist.
Life
Jacques -Christophe Valmont de Bomare was the son of a lawyer. He had received his degree from a Jesuit his hometown and made rapid progress in the Greek language. His father woke him in the affections, to complete the study of the natural sciences. He began by learning the anatomy at the Hotel-Dieu, was concerned with pharmacology and chemistry. So he learned from 1750 by Georges- Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Louis Jean -Marie Daubenton, René- Antoine de Reaumur Ferchault, Jean -Antoine Nollet, Guillaume- Francois Rouelle ( 1703-1770 ), Paul Henri Thiry d' Holbach, Jean- Baptiste le Rond d' Alembert and Denis Diderot know the natural sciences.
Of these major heads instructed awoke in him the desire, even to teach the natural sciences. He discussed his intentions with the former French Minister of War, Marc- Pierre d' Argenson, to which he received an order to visit the most important cities in Europe. There he had the metal workshops looked at, visited mines and collected materials for a future lesson. 1756 he returned to Paris, where he taught about various branches of natural history to 1788. In 1767 he became a member of the Académie d'agriculture de France and in 1769 he became Director of the Cabinet of physics and natural history of Louis Joseph de Bourbon- Condé V in Chantilly.
His first book is the catalog of the Museum of Natural History, Design Universal Dictionary of Natural History ( 1764). After a trip to Lapland and Iceland, he gave an exact description of the volcanoes of Iceland. In addition, he had to expand his collection of minerals. In 1763 he published his " Traité de mineralogy ", which in 1764 the "Dictionary of Natural History " followed, which in almost any language translated in different countries appeared and is considered his major work. Many learned societies had taken him in as a member. Offers in foreign countries to give lectures he refused. Since 1793, he was a member of the Institut de France and was appointed professor of natural history at the École Centrale Paris, which he also took a job at the Lycée Charlemagne.
Works
- Catalogue d' un cabinet d' histoire naturelle, Paris, 1758
- Extrait du système nomenclateur complet de minéralogie, Paris, 1759
- Nouvelle exposure you règne animal, Paris, 1761-1762
- Dictionnaire raisonné d' histoire naturelle, Paris: Didot le Jeune, 1764 et 1765, 5 [ou 6 ] vol. in-8 °; Paris: Lacombe, 1767-1768; Yverdon, 1768-1770; Paris: Brunet, et Lyon: J.-M. Bruysset père et fils, 1775-1776, Lyon: chez Bruysset frères, 1791, Lyon: Bruysset aîné et Cie, 1800