Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique
The Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des trois Règnes de la Nature: vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypes divers was an illustrated encyclopedia of plants, animals and minerals and was characterized above all by the first scientific descriptions of many species and its attractive illustrations. The work was published in Paris in 1788 by the publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke .
Authors:
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck responsible for plants and taxonomy
- Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre for whales, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects
- Louis Pierre Vieillot for birds, and the second volume
- Jean Guillaume Bruguière for the invertebrates
literature
- Christabel P. Braunrot, Kathleen Hardesty Doig: The Encyclopédie méthodique: an introduction, Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century , 327 (1995): 1–152.
- Robert Darnton: The business of Enlightenment: a publishing history of the Encyclopédie Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press. (1979)
- George B. Watts: Thomas Jefferson, the 'Encyclopedie' and the 'Encyclopedie methodique French Review 38: 318-25. (1965)