François-Nicolas Martinet (1731 - 1800) was a French

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

, engraver and naturalist. Martinet engraved the plates for numerous works on natural history, especially

ornithology Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

. Notable in particular are those for ''l'Ornithologia, sive Synopsis methodica'' of

Mathurin Jacques Brisson Mathurin Jacques Brisson (; 30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher. Brisson was born at Fontenay-le-Comte. The earlier part of his life was spent in the pursuit of natural history; his published works ...

(1760–63).

References

* ''L'Histoire des oiseaux, peints dans leurs aspects apparents et sensibles'', éd. originale conservée en un unique exemplaire au Trinity College d'Hartford. Nouvelle édition par le Bibliothèque des introuvables, avec les 208 gravures, 450 pages avec le texte originale et des commentaires d' Antoine Reille, ancien producteur de l'émission '' Les Animaux du Monde''.

External links

Smithsonian Library: François-Nicolas Martinet
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