Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez
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Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez (1778–1856) was a Belgian
naturalist
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He founded with the French botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
(1778–1846) and the Belgian chemist
Jean-Baptiste Van Mons
(1765–1842) the Annales générales de Sciences physiques consacrées aux Sciences naturelles published in six volumes between 1819 and 1822. His Dictionnaire portatif de chimie, de minéralogie et de géologie, en rapport avec l'état présent de ces sciences, composé par une société de chimistes, de minéralogistes et de géologues was published in 1824 and Résumé d'ornithologie ou d'histoire naturelle des oiseaux in 1829.
He published in 1833 with Pierre Corneille van Geel (1796–1838), Encyclographie du règne végétal. He was also the author of Guide pratique de minéralogie usuelle and Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles.
He left his library of 4,000 volumes, to the town of Mons
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Belgium
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naturalist
Naturalist
Naturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
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He founded with the French botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist. He was born at Agen...
(1778–1846) and the Belgian chemist
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
Jean-Baptiste Van Mons
Jean-Baptiste Van Mons
Jean-Baptiste Van Mons was a Belgian physicist, chemist, botanist, horticulturist and pomologist, and professor of chemistry and agronomy at Louvain . Van Mons carried out the first recorded selective breeding of the European Pear through cycles of seed propagation...
(1765–1842) the Annales générales de Sciences physiques consacrées aux Sciences naturelles published in six volumes between 1819 and 1822. His Dictionnaire portatif de chimie, de minéralogie et de géologie, en rapport avec l'état présent de ces sciences, composé par une société de chimistes, de minéralogistes et de géologues was published in 1824 and Résumé d'ornithologie ou d'histoire naturelle des oiseaux in 1829.
He published in 1833 with Pierre Corneille van Geel (1796–1838), Encyclographie du règne végétal. He was also the author of Guide pratique de minéralogie usuelle and Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles.
He left his library of 4,000 volumes, to the town of Mons
Mons
Mons is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, of which it is the capital. The Mons municipality includes the old communes of Cuesmes, Flénu, Ghlin, Hyon, Nimy, Obourg, Baudour , Jemappes, Ciply, Harmignies, Harveng, Havré, Maisières, Mesvin, Nouvelles,...
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