The ''Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois regnes de la nature'' was an illustrated

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plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

animal Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Biology, biological Kingdom (biology), kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, ...

s and

mineral In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.John P. Rafferty, ed. (2011): Mi ...

s, notable for including the first scientific descriptions of many

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

, and for its attractive engravings. It was published in

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by Charles Joseph Panckoucke, from 1788 on. Although its several volumes can be considered a part of the greater ''

Encyclopédie méthodique The ''Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières'' () was published between 1782 and 1832 by the France, French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, his son-in-law Henri Agasse, and the latter's wife, Thérèse-Charlotte Agasse. Arranged by ...

'', they were titled and issued separately. Contributors: *

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biologi ...

(plants, taxonomy) *

Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752, Aveyron – 20 September 1804, Saint-Geniez-d'Olt) was a French zoology, zoologist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects to the ''Tableau encyclopéd ...

(cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects) *

Louis Pierre Vieillot Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist. Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collected ...

(birds, second volume) *

Jean Guillaume Bruguière Jean Guillaume Bruguière (19 July 1749 – 3 October 1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat. Biography Bruguière was born in Montpellier, France, on 19 July 1749.Comptes rendus du Congrès national des sociétés savantes: Se ...

(invertebrates) Individual prints from this work today can sell for hundreds of dollars (US) apiece.

External links

Cambridge University Library account

References

*Christabel P. Braunrot & Kathleen Hardesty Doig, 1995 ''The Encyclopédie méthodique: an introduction, Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century'', 327 (1995): 1–152. *Robert Darnton, 1979 ''The business of Enlightenment: a publishing history of the Encyclopédie'' Cambridge, Mass.: Bel,knap Press. *George B. Watts,1965 "Thomas Jefferson, the 'Encyclopedie' and the ''Encyclopedie methodique'' French Review 38:318-25. Encyclopedias in French Natural history books 1788 non-fiction books 18th-century encyclopedias Illustrated books {{Encyclopedia-stub