Talk:Alexandre Brongniart

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I added some new titles for him, and briefly described what he did as a geologist. SwarleyPat (talk) 16:51, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

I added a little info about teaching into the Life category In 1797, he became an instructor of natural history at the École Centrale des Quatre-Nations, and became the proffessor of minerology in 1822 at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He was appointed in 1800 by Napoleon's minister of the interior Lucien Bonaparte director of the revitalized porcelain manufactory at Sèvres, holding this role until death. The young man took to the position a combination of his training as a scientist— especially as a mining engineer relevant to the chemistry of ceramics— his managerial talents and financial acumen and his cultivated understanding of neoclassical esthetic.[1] He remained in charge of Sèvres, through regime changes, for 47 years. Erm7vc (talk) 16:54, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm going to add a new section dedicated to the significant work done. In 1800, Brongniart published Essai d’une classification naturelle des reptiles which he compared the anatomy of reptiles in order to classify them into different groups. The four classifications were chelonians, saurians, ophidians, and batrachians. Batrachians is the only group that is no longer recognized as reptiles as they are amphibians. Brongniart worked with Cuvier to determine how old fossils were. Their paper “Essai sur la geographie mineralogique des environs de Paris” identified nine formations that had been formed over a very long period of time. The formations, starting with the oldest, were called the Chalk, Argile Plastique, Calcaire grossier, Calcaire silicieux, Formation gypseuse, Sabels et Gres marins, Gres sans coquilliers, Terrain d’eau douce, and Limon d’aterrissement. Brongniart found that some of the strata had marine mollusk fossils, and some had fresh water mollusk fossils. He used the alternation of these marine and fresh water layers to disproved the theory that strata was deposited by a shrinking ocean. Another significant thing Brongniart did in stratigraphy was using the fossil content in the strata he examined in Paris to identify strata in other locations instead of depth or lithology, as rocks can’t be expected to have the exact same characteristics or depth if deposited under different conditions. Brongniart published the first full length study of trilobites in which he classified a variety from Europe and North America and tried to group them based on age. This work contributed to later work on Paleozoic stratigraphy. Erm7vc (talk) 02:58, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm also going to go ahead and change the family section so that it is a little more detailed.

Changing from: His son was Adolphe Theodore Brongniart. His daughter Herminie married Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas.[5]

Changing to: His wife was Cecile Coquebert de Montbret (1782–1862), the daughter of the French consul to England, Charles-Etienne Coquebert de Montbret. They had three children together. Their son, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, became a major figure in the study of paleobotany. Their daughter Hermine (1803–1890) married Jean Baptiste Dumas, and their other daughter Mathilde (1808–1882) married Jean Victoir Audouin. Erm7vc (talk) 03:30, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

I reorganized the "early works" at 1800 and added the chunk about his studies on reptiles as well as the solution on the problem he found about Batrachia not been a type of retiles. SwarleyPat (talk) 20:13, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

I added the details on the collaboration with Cuvier as well as the links to their figures of strata they studied. SwarleyPat (talk) 20:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

I added two of his publications to the Publication section. SwarleyPat (talk) 20:44, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

I added the map that Cuvier and Brongniart used in the study of strata around Paris region.SwarleyPat (talk) 17:17, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

I added the citations to all of my additions in the "Work" sections SwarleyPat (talk) 17:57, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

I added several of his publications and cited where i found them Erm7vc (talk) 06:57, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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