About Joseph Philippe François Deleuze
Lived 1753 – 1835 (aged 81–82). Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was a French botanist, librarian, magnetizer, naturalist and physician.
Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze (}; 12 April 1753, Sisteron – 29 October 1835, Paris) was a French naturalist.
Biography J. P. F. Deleuze studied in Paris and became an assistant naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History in 1795. He collaborated with Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836). An assistant naturalist and librarian of the Natural History Museum, he is best known for being a proponent of the theory of animal magnetism and suggested that the French Academy of Sciences study it. Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was a resident member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme. In 1817, Deleuze was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Honours The genus 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 Erasmus Darwin (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).
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Who was Joseph Philippe François Deleuze?
French botanist (1753–1835)
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Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was born in 1753 in Sisteron.
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Joseph Philippe François Deleuze died in 1835 in Paris.
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Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was a botanist, librarian, magnetizer, naturalist and physician.
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Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was French.
Sources & further reading
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