Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze (12 April 1753, in Sisteron – 29 October 1835, in Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French naturalist.

Biography

J. P. F. Deleuze studied in Paris and became assistant naturalist at the

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in 1795. He collaborated with

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(1748-1836). An assistant naturalist and librarian of the Natural History Museum, he is best known for being a proponent of the theory of

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and suggested the

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study it. Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was a resident member of the

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. In 1817, Deleuze was elected a member of the

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Honours

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Leuzea was dedicated to Deleuze by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyrame de Candolle.

Selected publications

* 1804: ; ; .

* 1807: ''Éloge historique de François Péron'', included in the ''Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes, exécuté sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804'', 3 volumes (1807-1816), Impr. impériale (Paris). * 1813: ''Histoire critique du magnétisme animal'', deux volumes, in-8°, reprinted in 1819, Mame (Paris). * 1819: ''Introduction pratique sur le magnétisme animal, suivie d'une lettre écrite à l'auteur par un médecin étranger'', reprinted in 1836. J.-G. Dentu (Paris), in-8°, ii + 472 p. * 1810: ''Eudoxe, entretiens sur l'étude des sciences, des lettres et de la philosophie'', two volumes, in-8°, F. Schoell (Paris). * 1823: ''Histoire et description du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle'', A. Royer (Paris) : 720 p. * 1826: ''Lettre à MM. les membres de l'Académie de médecine, sur la marche qu'il convient de suivre pour fixer l'opinion publique relativement à la réalité du magnétisme animal'', Béchet Jeune (Paris) : 39 p. ;Translations: * 1799: ''Les Amours des plantes, poème en quatre chants, suivi de notes et de dialogues sur la poésie, ouvrage traduit de l'anglais de Darwin'' (''The Loves of Plants'') by

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(1731-1802). * 1801: ''Les Saisons'' by James Thomson (1700–1748), preceded by a ''Notice sur la vie et les écrits de Thomson'' by the translator. * 1805: (journal).

References

Bibliography

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*Philippe Jaussaud et Edouard-Raoul Brygoo, ''Du jardin au Muséum : en 516 biographies'', Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, 2004, 630 p. () * ; ; ; .

The book is divided into three dialectical parts or main moments of an investigation which takes the epistemological point of view on philosophy.

External links

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