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Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare

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French botanist and naturalist (1731–1807)
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Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare
Born17 September 1731
Rouen, France
Died24 August 1807(1807-08-24) (aged 75)
Paris, France
Known fornatural history, botany

Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (born 17 September 1731, Rouen; died 24 August 1807, Paris) was a French botanist and naturalist. He wrote an influential encyclopedia of natural history in the 1760s: Dictionnaire raisonné universel d’histoire naturelle (6 volumes, Paris, Chez Lacombe, 1764–1768).

Works

Dictionnaire raisonné universel d'histoire naturelle, 1791

References

  1. Damkaer, David M. (2002). The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History. American Philosophical Society. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-87169-240-5.
  2. Curran, Andrew S. (2011-09-19). The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment. JHU Press. pp. 163–164. ISBN 978-1-4214-0150-8.


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