{"product_id":"various-artist-info-copy-of-a-template-astrolabe","title":"Various artist info Copy of A Template  Astrolabe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDate: 1826 - 1829\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist: Captain Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d'Urville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngraver: Tatsu J    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize: 340 x 525mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: Very good. The   darkening at the bottom is a photography is a  shadow only\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechnique:Copperplate engraving\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrice: $450\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription Elephant folio size on beautiful paper of the early 1800\"s \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvinance:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Voyage of the Astrolabe 1826 - 1829\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe voyage of the Astrolabe was, arguably, France’s last and greatest scientific voyage of discovery by sail. Under the skilful leadership of Captain Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville, the Astrolabe and the Zélée would discover and claim Adélie land in Antarctica, amass a vast collection of botanical and zoological specimens, and advise the French government against attempting to create a colony at Akaroa in New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptain Dumont d'Urville was born in Normandy, France on 23 May 1790.  He made his first voyage to the Pacific as second-in-command to Duperrey in the Coquille in 1822-25, and returned in command of the Astrolabe (the Coquille renamed) in 1826-29. One of his intentions on this second voyage was to complete Cook’s chart of New Zealand. In doing so he skilfully navigated through French Pass in the Marlborough Sounds and established the existence of D’Urville Island which was named after him. His third and final voyage to the Pacific was with two ships, the Astrolabe and the Zélée, from 1837 to 1840. Charles Jacquinot captained the Zélée. Dumont d’Urville was promoted to rear-admiral on his return from this dangerous, heroic voyage of exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTragically, Dumont d’Urville had written only three volumes of the official account of the voyage and begun the fourth when he, his wife and son, were killed in a railway accident at Bellevue on 8 May 1842. The remaining volumes of Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Oceanie (Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania) were completed by other members of the expedition. The Macmillan Brown Library is privileged to hold the entire set, in total 23 volumes and 7 atlases, written in French.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDate: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eArtist:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eEngraver: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eImage Size: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eTechnique:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePrice:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eStock Number: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDescription: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBiography:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacobus Houbraken\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJacobus Houbraken (25 December 1698 – 14 November 1780) was a Dutch engraver born in DoDrdrecht, the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), whom he assisted in producing a published record of the lives of artists from the Dutch Golden Age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1707 he moved to Amsterdam, where for years he helped his father with his magnum opus, his art historical work The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters (1718–1721). When his father died he assisted his mother with the last proofs of the manuscript before publishing. With this project he started his portraits of Netherlandish celebrities, that are today, in many cases, the only likenesses left of these people. He was influenced by studying the works of Cornelis Cort, Jonas Suyderhoef, Gerard Edelinck and the Visschers whilst in Amsterdam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHoubraken devoted himself almost entirely to portraiture. His work became famous through his collaboration with the historian Thomas Birch and artist George Vertue, on the project entitled, Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, published in parts in London from 1743 to 1752, and from which our plates come\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe died, aged 81 in Amsterdam.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis oeuvre of more than 400 portrait engravings form an important record for art provenance. His portraits were often set in an oval frame, with a subtitle with the subject's claim to fame. Under that in small letters, he placed his notes about the original oil portrait.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Pyne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJ Lowry Sculpt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDESCRIPTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDepicts '97. Dasyure Viverrinus 98. Porcupine Ant Eater 99. Duck-billed Platypus' A couple of mall marks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eADDITIONAL INFORMATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJ Lowry After Charles Pyne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMethod\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWood-Engraving With Later Hand-Colouring\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC1870\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e270mm By 175mm (Sheet)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSKU\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAU5777\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eNew Vanity Fair, APE, SPY, .T. , FTD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're looking for a who's who of Victorian life then grabbing an old copy of \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_Fair_(UK)\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is a good place to start. The most successful 'Society Magazine' in the history of English journalism, the publication ran under the promise of presenting “a weekly show of Political, Social and Literary Wares”. For almost fifty years it invited readers to recognise their vanities and each week it would summarise world events, review West End shows and – most importantly – caricature its readers! From artists and authors to scholars and statesmen; the \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e caricature was an integral part of upper-class Victorian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Leslie Ward: SPY\u003cbr\u003e The most prolific caricaturist at the magazine was undoubtedly \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Ward\"\u003eLeslie 'Spy' Ward\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (1851–1922). From 1873 until 1911, Spy captured the people and personalities of Victorian society. During his time at the magazine, he produced more than half of its 2,387 caricatures and documented the best-known figures of the day. His work was immensely popular and he was largely responsible for reviving the tradition of the single figure caricature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These days, these types of drawings may feel like a bit of an oddity – they tend to lack the satirical edge we think of when we first think of caricatures. Yet despite this, Spy was undoubtedly one of the best of his era. His images may feel more complementary than insulting, but this is very telling of the time in which they were made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Spy's era was that of the Victorian Empire. While we may have \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/illustrationchronicles.com\/The-Manners-and-Customs-of-Ye-Victorians\"\u003espoken already at some length\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e about this period, it's not something that can easily be ignored. The Victorians played a huge role in shaping many aspects of Western culture and the social factors behind these developments are hugely relevant when looking at the context of anything that was created during this time. The era was one that was defined by huge class divides. It was a time of reputations and an era where respectability meant everything. Undoubtedly, these factors shaped the world of illustration too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis early caricatures were closer to the types of satirical drawings we think of today. They have distorted proportions; large heads and exaggerated features. Yet the longer he stayed at the magazine, the more his reputation grew. Over the course of his career his style developed, moving further away from caricature and turning more into what he described as 'characteristic portraits'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These conventional interpretations brought him great acclaim and his sustained productivity brought him great popularity. He might not have had the originality or artistic talents of some of his contemporaries, but his strong work ethic was worthy enough to justify his success. In 1918 he received a knighthood to highlight his 'good work to the citizens of the British Empire'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlo Pellegrini: APE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCarlo Pellegrini\u003c\/strong\u003e (25 March 1839 – 22 January 1889), who did much of his work under the pseudonym of \u003cstrong\u003eApe\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/Italian\"\u003e[ˈaːpe]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_language\"\u003eItalian\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for \"bee\"), was an artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caricaturist\"\u003ecaricaturist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine_1868-1914)\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e magazine, a leading journal of London society. He was born in \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capua\"\u003eCapua\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, then in the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_the_Two_Sicilies\"\u003eKingdom of the Two Sicilies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. His father came from an ancient land-owning family, while his mother was allegedly descended from the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medici\"\u003eMedici\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. His work for the magazine made his reputation and he became its most influential artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not recorded how Pellegrini met \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Gibson_Bowles\"\u003eThomas Bowles\u003c\/a\u003e, the owner of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine_1868-1914)\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e magazine, but he quickly found himself employed by that publication and became its first caricaturist, originally signing his work as 'Singe' (French for \"Monkey\") and later, and more famously, as 'Ape' (Italian for \"Bee\"). Pellegrini's work for the magazine made his reputation and he became its most influential artist, in which his caricatures were to be printed for over twenty years, from January 1869 to April 1889. His 1869 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caricature\"\u003ecaricature\u003c\/a\u003e of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Disraeli\"\u003eBenjamin Disraeli\u003c\/a\u003e was the first colour \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithograph\"\u003elithograph\u003c\/a\u003e to appear in the magazine, and proved immensely popular. It was the first of a highly successful series of more than two thousand caricatures published by \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e. Although the later caricatures by Sir \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Ward\"\u003eLeslie Ward\u003c\/a\u003e are perhaps now more well known, those by 'Ape' are regarded by many collectors as being artistically and technically superior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApart from drawing his caricatures for the magazine, Pellegrini also attempted to set himself up as a portrait painter, but this venture met with limited success. Pellegrini met \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Degas\"\u003eDegas\u003c\/a\u003e in London in the 1870s, and in about 1876–77 painted his portrait, inscribed 'à vous\/Pellegrini' (to you\/Pellegrini). In return, Degas painted Pellegrini's portrait, similarly inscribed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePellegrini was a member of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beefsteak_Club\"\u003eBeefsteak Club\u003c\/a\u003e in London and there met \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_McNeill_Whistler\"\u003eWhistler\u003c\/a\u003e, who became a great influence on his work; indeed, he even attempted to paint portraits in the style of Whistler. Pellegrini was also a member of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Arts_Club\"\u003eThe Arts Club\u003c\/a\u003e from 1874 until 1888.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePellegrini was extremely careful about his appearance, and would wear immaculate white \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spats_(footwear)\"\u003espats\u003c\/a\u003e with highly polished boots. He grew long Mandarin-like fingernails, would never walk when he could ride, and had a limitless fund of amusing stories and eccentricities. He spoke broken-English, flaunted his \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homosexuality\"\u003ehomosexuality\u003c\/a\u003e (at a time when it was dangerous to do so), and would often bring \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macaroni\"\u003emacaroni\u003c\/a\u003e dishes to elegant dinner parties. He would refuse invitations to country houses out of fear of strange beds, and had a habit of keeping a cigar in his mouth as he slept.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlo_Pellegrini_(caricaturist)#cite_note-2\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[2]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe died of lung disease at his home, 53 Mortimer Street, near \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cavendish_Square\"\u003eCavendish Square\u003c\/a\u003e in London. He is buried in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Mary%27s_Roman_Catholic_Cemetery\"\u003eSt. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kensal_Green\"\u003eKensal Green\u003c\/a\u003e, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eT.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThéobald Chartran\u003c\/strong\u003e (20 July 1849 – 16 July 1907) was a classical French propaganda \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Painting\"\u003epainter\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs \"T\", he was one of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_Fair_artists\"\u003eartists\u003c\/a\u003e responsible for occasional \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_Fair_caricatures\"\u003ecaricatures\u003c\/a\u003e of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine_1868-1914)\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e magazine, specializing in French and Italian subjects. His work for \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e included \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Leo_XIII\"\u003ePope Leo XIII\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giuseppe_Garibaldi\"\u003eGiuseppe Garibaldi\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umberto_I_of_Italy\"\u003eUmberto I of Italy\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Henry_Waddington\"\u003eWilliam Henry Waddington\u003c\/a\u003e, all in 1878, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Gounod\"\u003eCharles Gounod\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giuseppe_Verdi\"\u003eGiuseppe Verdi\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Renan\"\u003eErnest Renan\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_Gr%C3%A9vy\"\u003eJules Grévy\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Napol%C3%A9on_Joseph_Charles_Paul_Bonaparte\"\u003eNapoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Hugo\"\u003eVictor Hugo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrice_de_Mac-Mahon,_duc_de_Magenta\"\u003eMarshal MacMahon\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Adolphe_Marie_Prosper_Granier_de_Cassagnac\"\u003eGranier de Cassagnac\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Blanc\"\u003eLouis Blanc\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_Dumas_Fils\"\u003eAlexandre Dumas \u003cem\u003efils\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, all in 1879.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresident \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Roosevelt\"\u003eTheodore Roosevelt\u003c\/a\u003e's official portrait was originally commissioned to Théobald Chartran in 1902, but when Roosevelt saw the final product he hated it and hid it in the darkest corner of the White House. When family members called it the \"Mewing Cat\" for making him look so harmless, he had it destroyed and hired \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Singer_Sargent\"\u003eJohn Singer Sargent\u003c\/a\u003e to paint a more masculine portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong Chartran's work is his portrait of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ren%C3%A9-Th%C3%A9ophile-Hyacinthe_Laennec\"\u003eRené-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec\u003c\/a\u003e, the inventor of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stethoscope\"\u003estethoscope\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFTD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederick Thomas Dalton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDalton was educated at \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Highgate_School\"\u003eHighgate School\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corpus_Christi_College,_Oxford\"\u003eCorpus Christi College, Oxford\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. He was assistant master of \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radley_College\"\u003eRadley College\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e in 1879–1880. He qualified for admission as a solicitor and in 1893 he joined the staff of \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Times\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, became Assistant Editor of Literature in 1897 and served as Editor of Literature in 1900–1901.\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Thomas_Dalton#cite_note-2\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[2]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e He was assistant editor for \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Times_Literary_Supplement\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e from 1902 to 1923.\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Thomas_Dalton#cite_note-3\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[3]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Carter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarter was born on 22 June 1748, the son of Benjamin Carter, a marble-carver established in \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piccadilly\"\u003ePiccadilly\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e in the West End of London. At an early age he was sent to a boarding-school at \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battersea\"\u003eBattersea\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, and then to one in \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kennington_Lane\"\u003eKennington Lane\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. Leaving school aged about twelve, he went home to his father, making working drawings for the men. In about 1764, following his father's death, Carter was taken into the office of a Joseph Dixon, a surveyor and mason, with whom he remained for some years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1774 he was employed to execute drawings of St. Paul's Churchyard for the \u003cem\u003eBuilders Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Francis Newbery, for which he was to continue to draw until 1786. Between 1775 and 1778 he published almost 30 designs for Gothic buildings in the magazine. He insisted that the Gothic was the correct style for ecclesiastical structures, Classical modes being only suitable for \"mansions and other structures of ease and pleasure\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1780, on the recommendation of \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Lort\"\u003eMichael Lort\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, Carter was employed by the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London\"\u003eSociety of Antiquaries\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e to do some drawing and etching. He was elected a fellow of the society in March 1795, and then worked as its draughtsman. In 1780 he had drawn for \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Gough_(antiquarian)\"\u003eRichard Gough\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, later a patron, the west front of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Croyland_Abbey\"\u003eCroyland Abbey\u003c\/a\u003e Church and other subjects, in Gough's \u003cem\u003eSepulchral Monuments\u003c\/em\u003e and other works. From 1781 Carter also met other patrons and friends, among whom were \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Soane\"\u003eJohn Soane\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Milner_(bishop)\"\u003eJohn Milner\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, Sir \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Charles_Englefield\"\u003eHenry Charles Englefield\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Bray_(antiquarian)\"\u003eWilliam Bray\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, Sir \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Colt_Hoare\"\u003eRichard Colt Hoare\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earl_of_Exeter\"\u003eEarl of Exeter\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horace_Walpole\"\u003eHorace Walpole\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carter_(architect)#cite_note-dnb-1\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis first important published work was his \u003cem\u003eSpecimens of Ancient Sculpture and Painting\u003c\/em\u003e, published in parts between 1780 and 1794. In his introduction to the \u003cem\u003eSpecimens\u003c\/em\u003e Carter wrote that, \"having explored at different times various parts of England for the purpose of taking sketches and drawing of the remains of ancient sculpture and painting, his aim is to perpetuate such as he has been so fortunate as to meet with by engraving them.\" While the \u003cem\u003eSpecimens\u003c\/em\u003e was in progress, Carter also published \u003cem\u003eViews of Ancient Buildings in England\u003c\/em\u003e (drawn and engraved by himself) in six volumes (London, 1786–93). In 1785 he began another extensive work, \u003cem\u003eThe Ancient Architecture of England\u003c\/em\u003e (1795–1814).\u003csup\u003e \u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Summerson\"\u003eJohn Summerson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e wrote that, in this work, \"details of Gothic buildings are more sympathetically represented than in any previous books. The chronological arrangement of the architectural examples was an important feature and prepared the way for subsequent writers on the sequence of styles; referring to Gothic architecture as \"Pointed architecture\", he divided it into phases, such as \"First Pointed\" and \"Second Pointed\", classifications which remained in use well into the 19th century. A new and enlarged edition of the \u003cem\u003eAncient Buildings\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1845 (two parts, folio) by \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Britton_(antiquarian)\"\u003eJohn Britton\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1795 and 1813 Carter was further engaged in preparing plans, elevations, sections, and specimens of the architecture of ecclesiastical buildings, which were published at intervals by the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London\"\u003eSociety of Antiquaries\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carter_(architect)#cite_note-dnb-1\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carter_(architect)#cite_note-7\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[7]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn important aspect of Carter's work was a series of more than 200 papers published in the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gentleman%27s_Magazine\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGentleman's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e between 1798 and his death in 1817 as \"Pursuits of Architectural Innovation\". These papers partly consist of a series of attacks on contemporaries engaged in the restoration of buildings and monuments.\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carter_(architect)#cite_note-dnb-1\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e During this period – dominated by the Napoleonic wars – Carter appealed to the patriotism of his audience in his advocacy of the Gothic, by portraying the English Middle Ages, as a time of national glory and enlightened patronage, culminating in the reign of \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_III_of_England\"\u003eEdward III\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. The articles were signed simply \"An Architect\", but Carter's authorship could not be concealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarter built little as an architect. A significant work however was \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milner_Hall,_Winchester\"\u003eMilner Hall\u003c\/a\u003e, the Catholic chapel at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winchester\"\u003eWinchester\u003c\/a\u003e, commissioned in 1791-2 by the priest \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Milner_(bishop)\"\u003eJohn Milner\u003c\/a\u003e following the Second Relief Act, which allowed the erection of Roman Catholic places of worship, on the condition that they were without steeples and bells. Entered through a Norman gateway salvaged from a demolished church, the chapel, stuccoed in imitation of stone, had details and furnishings imitated from various \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perpendicular_style\"\u003ePerpendicular\u003c\/a\u003e models.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTowards the autumn of 1816 his health began to decline. In the spring of the following year \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dropsy\"\u003edropsy\u003c\/a\u003e made its appearance, and he died in Upper Eaton Street, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pimlico\"\u003ePimlico\u003c\/a\u003e, on 8 September 1817, aged 69. He was buried at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampstead\"\u003eHampstead\u003c\/a\u003e, an inscribed stone to his memory being placed on the south side of the church. His collection, including drawings and antiquities, was sold by auction at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sotheby%27s\"\u003eSotheby's\u003c\/a\u003e on 26 February 1818\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJohn White\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biographyContent textContent\" id=\"3971\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn White (1756?-1832), naval surgeon, entered the navy on 26 June 1778 as third surgeon's mate in H.M.S.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWasp\u003c\/i\u003e. He received his diploma of the Company of Surgeons on 2 August 1781, and in the next five years his naval service took him as far as the West Indies and India. On 26 June 1786 he became surgeon of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrresistible\u003c\/i\u003e, and four months later, on the recommendation of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, he was appointed chief surgeon of the expedition to establish a convict settlement at Botany Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf almost 1500 people in the eleven ships of the First Fleet 778 were convicts, many in poor health from long imprisonment. It is to the credit of White and his assistants that on the voyage of more than eight months there were only thirty-four deaths. Outbreaks of scurvy and dysentery and lack of accommodation for the sick were his first problems in the new colony. Within a year the incidence of sickness was greatly decreased, a hospital was built, and White, a keen amateur naturalist, found time to accompany Governor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/phillip-arthur-2549\" title=\"Phillip, Arthur (1738 - 1814)\"\u003eArthur Phillip\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon two journeys of exploration. On 12 August 1788 he fought a duel with his third assistant,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/balmain-william-1736\" title=\"Balmain, William (1762 - 1803)\"\u003eWilliam Balmain\u003c\/a\u003e, in which, according to one account, both were slightly wounded. Ill feeling between them continued for several years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn joining the First Fleet White had begun to keep a journal, in which he made many notes of birds examined in the colony. In November 1788 he sent this to a London friend, Thomas Wilson; edited probably by Wilson it was published in 1790 as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of a Voyage to New South Wales\u003c\/i\u003e. Accompanying the text were sixty-five engravings illustrating the natural history and products of the colony, drawn in England from specimens sent by White, with descriptions by English specialists. He also sent drawings and possibly specimens for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(London, 1789). His own book was a big success. A German edition followed, and later there were translations into Swedish and French.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile the infant colony had reached the edge of famine. White helped in the erection of a signal station at South Head and was among the officers who volunteered to fish every second night to supplement the rations. The arrival in June 1790 of the Second Fleet tested White and his staff to their utmost. About 500 convicts were landed dying or seriously ill. Despite lack of medicines and hospital accommodation White and his assistants nursed more than half of them back to health. A similar crisis arose with the arrival of the Third Fleet between July and September 1791. At one time about 600 newly-arrived convicts were under medical treatment and incapable of work and in 1792 the appalling total of 436 died.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe strain on White was severe and in December 1792 he applied for leave in England. Nevertheless he pursued his natural history studies and sent many specimens and drawings to England. When\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/watling-thomas-2776\" title=\"Watling, Thomas (1762 - )\"\u003eThomas Watling\u003c\/a\u003e, convict and artist, reached the colony in October 1792 he was assigned to White and in the next two years made many drawings for him. It is possible that White himself had some skill as an artist. When Phillip departed in December 1792 control of the colony passed to Major\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/grose-francis-2130\" title=\"Grose, Francis (1758? - 1814)\"\u003eFrancis Grose\u003c\/a\u003e, who soon afterwards received permission to make land grants to his officers. White received 100 acres (40 ha) which he named Hamond Hill Farm, afterwards part of the suburb of Petersham. Later he was granted a further thirty acres (12 ha) adjoining. He retained these grants until 1822 when they were sold to a settler,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/redmond-edward-2581\" title=\"Redmond, Edward (1766? - 1840)\"\u003eEdward Redmond\u003c\/a\u003e. White's application for leave was eventually granted and when he sailed in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaedalus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon 17 December 1794 he had the satisfaction of leaving the colony a far healthier place than it had been for five years. Deaths from all causes in his last year had totalled only 59.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite reached London in July 1795. He was reluctant to return to New South Wales and in August 1796, faced with the alternative of doing so immediately or of resigning his appointment, he chose to resign. He contemplated publishing a second book and sent a rough manuscript and many drawings to A. B. Lambert, a noted botanist, but the project came to nothing. The manuscript appears to have been lost and the drawings are possibly those which form the so-called Watling Collection now preserved in the British Museum (Natural History).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor three years (1796-99) White served in various ships. He was surgeon at Sheerness Navy Yard from December 1799 to September 1803 and at Chatham Yard from September 1803 until he was superannuated in January 1820 at the age of 63. He was granted a half-pay pension of £91 5s. and spent his last years at Brighton. He died at Worthing on 20 February 1832 aged 75 and was buried at St Mary's, Broadwater, where until recent years a small tablet noted this event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite left an estate valued at £12,000. He had married about 1800 and when he died three children of this union were living: Richard Hamond, a naval lieutenant; Clara Christiana, who became the second wife of Ralph Bernal, M.P.; and Augusta Catherine Anne, who married Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-General) Henry Sandham, R.E. A fourth child, Andrew Douglass (Douglas), born to White by a convict, Rachel Turner, in Sydney on 23 September 1793 was brought up in England as a member of the household. He joined the Royal Engineers, fought at Waterloo, and in 1823 returned to Sydney to rejoin the mother from whom he had been parted as an infant and who had married\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/moore-thomas-2476\" title=\"Moore, Thomas (1762 - 1840)\"\u003eThomas Moore\u003c\/a\u003e, a prominent settler. He lived for some years at Parramatta, married in 1835 and died in 1837.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"infoList\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean-Baptiste David\u003c\/strong\u003e (called \u003cstrong\u003eJules David\u003c\/strong\u003e; 1808–1892) was a French painter and lithographer. His illustrations appeared in many books and magazines. He was particularly known for his illustrations of contemporary Parisian fashions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Years \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean-Baptiste David was born in 1808. He was a pupil of \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Duval_Le_Camus\"\u003ePierre Duval Le Camus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, who painted moralistic subjects. Duval was in turn a pupil of the famous painter \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques-Louis_David\"\u003eJacques-Louis David\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. Jean-Baptiste David began work in 1824, using his power of observation and facility of drawing to produce a variety of landscapes and interiors in Gothic style for publishers.\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_David#cite_note-FOOTNOTET%C3%A9tart-Vittu2014-1\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_Monarchy\"\u003eJuly Monarchy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (1830–1848) David also published caricatures. He belonged to the \u003cem\u003emouvement\u003c\/em\u003e party, and wanted to implement the ideals of liberty and the French republic. A caricature by David appeared in \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Caricature_(1830%E2%80%931843)\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Caricature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e of 31 May 1831. The king is depicted as an illusionist who uses the \u003cem\u003ejuste milieu\u003c\/em\u003e and some \u003cem\u003epoudre de non-intervention\u003c\/em\u003e to make liberty and revolution vanish. David's lithographs often attacked political tyranny, and religious hypocrisy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid exhibited in the \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salon_(Paris)\"\u003eParis Salon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e of 1834. He was working for the editor Jeannin in 1836 when he won a 2,000 franc prize from Delessert, president of the Savings Bank of Paris, for a work about the triumph of Virtue. His album \u003cem\u003eVice and Virtue\u003c\/em\u003e illustrated in twelve lithographs a good or bad action in each stage of life.\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_David#cite_note-FOOTNOTET%C3%A9tart-Vittu2014-1\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Six plates were dedicated to vice and six to virtue. The one series showed the criminals arrested, taken to prison and on the scaffold. The other series showed scenes of work, study and so on. The work was praised for the quality of the drawings but criticized for its tendentious moralization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1839 the \u003cem\u003eHistoire de France\u003c\/em\u003e by Théodose Burette was published with 500 drawings by David, engraved by V. Chevin.\u003cem\u003e L'Artiste\u003c\/em\u003e announced the book, saying the illustrations would make the book \"doubly popular\". The next year \u003cem\u003eL'Artiste\u003c\/em\u003e gave a six-page review of the book, with reproductions of twelve of the illustrations, saying it was one of the most remarkable publications to have appeared for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSix plates published by Jeannin in 1844 titled “\u003cem\u003eThe Middle Ages, Customs and Costumes”,\u003c\/em\u003e depicted nobles absorbed in religion and beggars living on charity. David's compositions were lively and often humorous. They were published until around 1855 in the \u003cem\u003eMusée de l'amateur\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eRevue des peintres\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eL'Artiste\u003c\/em\u003e. His best known works are the series of \u003cem\u003eThe Wandering Jew\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mysteries of Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, and the illustrations of \u003cem\u003eMorality in Action\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eHistory of Napoleon\u003c\/em\u003e. He also made lithographs for many romance titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFashion Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Achille_Dev%C3%A9ria\"\u003eAchille Devéria\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e introduced David to the \u003cem\u003eJournal des demoiselles\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eJournal des jeunes personnes\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he produced lithographs from 1839 to 1842. David's albums were often published as a supplement to women's magazines. He drew all the plates for the \u003cem\u003eLe Moniteur de la Mode\u003c\/em\u003e for fifty years. About 2,600 of David's fashion plates were first published in the \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Moniteur_de_la_Mode\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;redlink=1\"\u003eMoniteur de la Mode\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, and then republished in other magazines in France, Germany, Britain, Spain and America. He was a pioneer in introducing contemporary backgrounds in his plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1860 \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Orchart_Beeton\"\u003eSamuel Orchart Beeton\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, husband of \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs_Beeton\"\u003eMrs Beeton\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e and publisher of the \u003cem\u003eEnglishwoman's Domestic Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, began to include hand-colored fashion plates by David. These let his readers see the latest styles and colours from Paris, the world fashion centre at the time. Beeton included paper patterns, which let owners of the newly introduced domestic sewing machines make their own dresses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean-Baptiste David died in 1892. In 1987 his sketchbooks were shown in an exhibition called \u003cem\u003eFashion drawings of Jules David (1808–1892) and his time\u003c\/em\u003e at the Salon du Vieux-Colombier, town hall of the sixth arrondissement, Paris. During his long career, the fashionable figure was transformed. The delicate Dresden figurine of 1870, dressed in a modest, elaborate and very feminine style, was displaced by the \"seven foot beauty with the ten inch waist\" of 1893. The modern woman of 1893 was much more self-confident and her dress much more revealing and sophisticated than would have been suitable twenty years earlier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilvester Diggles (1817-1880)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilvester Diggles, naturalist, artist and musician, was born on 24 January 1817, the eldest son of Edward Holt Diggles, ironmonger of Liverpool, England, and his wife Elizabeth, née Silvester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 1839 he married Eliza, daughter of John Bradley, tutor of Liverpool; they had two daughters and a son. With them he arrived at Sydney in November 1853. After an exploratory visit to Brisbane in November-December 1854, he settled there permanently with his wife and family in January 1855. He taught drawing and music and also practised as a tuner and repairer of musical instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis wife died in August 1857 and on 26 January 1858 he married Albina, daughter of John and Sarah Birkett of Barnby in the Willows, Nottinghamshire; they had two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenial, friendly and an enthusiastic supporter of community activities, Diggles became a well-known and beloved citizen. He was a founder of the Brisbane Choral Society in 1859 and the Brisbane Philharmonic Society in 1861 and accompanist at church services and concerts. When the musicians of the city gave him a grand benefit concert in 1877, he was termed 'the father of music in Brisbane'. Sincerely religious, he had joined the New Jerusalem Church in 1846 and acted as its leader in Brisbane for some years; he also was a Mason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReference: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiggles helped to found the colony's first scientific institution, the Queensland Philosophical Society, on 1 March 1859 and published several papers in its \u003cem\u003eTransactions.\u003c\/em\u003e He acted for many years as honorary curator of the Philosophical Society’s small museum, established in the old windmill observatory on Wickham Terrace in 1862. This collection was gradually transferred to the Queensland Museum in 1871-74. His special interests were ornithology and entomology, through which he had a wide circle of friends and correspondents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis outstanding publication was \u003cem\u003eThe Ornithology of Australia\u003c\/em\u003e of which twenty-one parts were issued in 1865-70. Each part contains six lithographed hand-coloured plates, imperial quarto size, each accompanied by a page of descriptive text. When bound, this formed a large volume of 126 plates and 126 text pages, but it covered only about one third of the known Australian birds as he lacked the funds to complete the publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1877 his remaining plates and text were reissued under a new title, \u003cem\u003eCompanion to Gould’s Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e. Between 1863 and 1875, Diggles, unassisted, made 325 detailed watercolour paintings depicting about 600 Australian land birds, as the preliminary artwork for his plates. These watercolours, now bound in four folio volumes, are held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. They formed part of the Library’s foundation collection bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiggles's major contribution to the knowledge of Australian fauna, however, was through the extensive collections of insects, particularly butterflies, moths and beetles, which he sent to overseas entomologists for description. In 1875 his health began to fail, due partly to worry over the \u003cem\u003eOrnithology\u003c\/em\u003e. He died at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, on 21 March 1880, survived by two daughters of his first marriage and two sons of the second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon\u003c\/strong\u003e 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ewas a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_people\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrench\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_history\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003enaturalist\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematician\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003emathematician\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmology\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ecosmologist\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Encyclop%C3%A9distes\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eencyclopédiste\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHis works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJean-Baptiste Lamarck\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges_Cuvier\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eGeorges Cuvier\u003c\/a\u003e. Buffon published thirty-six \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quarto\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003equarto\u003c\/a\u003e volumes of his \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Histoire_Naturelle\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHistoire Naturelle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e during his lifetime; with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernst_Mayr\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eErnst Mayr\u003c\/a\u003e wrote that \"Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century\".\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-Mayrp330-2\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[2]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBuffon held the position of \u003cem\u003eintendant\u003c\/em\u003e (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jardin_des_Plantes\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJardin des Plantes\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eGeorges Louis Leclerc (later Comte de Buffon) was born at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montbard\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMontbard\u003c\/a\u003e, in the Province of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burgundy_(historical_region)\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBurgundy\u003c\/a\u003e to Benjamin Francois Leclerc, a minor local official in charge of the salt tax and Anne-Christine Marlin also from a family of civil servants. Georges was named after his mother's uncle (his godfather) Georges Blaisot, the tax-farmer of the Duke of Savoy for all of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sicily\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSicily\u003c\/a\u003e. In 1714 Blaisot died childless, leaving a considerable fortune to his seven-year-old godson. Benjamin Leclerc then purchased an estate containing the nearby village of Buffon and moved the family to Dijon acquiring various offices there as well as a seat in the Dijon Parlement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eGeorges attended the Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon from the age of ten onwards. From 1723–1726 he then studied law in Dijon, the prerequisite for continuing the family tradition in civil service. In 1728 Georges left Dijon to study mathematics and medicine at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Angers\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eUniversity of Angers\u003c\/a\u003e in France. At Angers in 1730 he made the acquaintance of the young English \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evelyn_Pierrepont,_2nd_Duke_of_Kingston-upon-Hull\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDuke of Kingston\u003c\/a\u003e, who was on his grand tour of Europe, and traveled with him on a large and expensive entourage for a year and a half through southern France and parts of Italy. Georges-Louis Leclerc had an elder brother, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Daubenton\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePierre Daubenton\u003c\/a\u003e (1703–1776), who wrote numerous articles for the \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Encyclop%C3%A9die\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eEncyclopédie\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denis_Diderot\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDiderot\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThere are persistent but completely undocumented rumors from this period about duels, abductions and secret trips to England. In 1732 after the death of his mother and before the impending remarriage of his father, Georges left Kingston and returned to Dijon to secure his inheritance. Having added 'de Buffon' to his name while traveling with the Duke, he repurchased the village of Buffon, which his father had meanwhile sold off. With a fortune of about 80 000 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_livre\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003elivres\u003c\/a\u003e Buffon set himself up in Paris to pursue science, at first primarily mathematics and mechanics, and the increase of his fortune.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCareer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn 1732 he moved to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eParis\u003c\/a\u003e, where he made the acquaintance of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voltaire\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/a\u003e and other intellectuals. He first made his mark in the field of mathematics and, in his \u003cem\u003eSur le jeu de franc-carreau\u003c\/em\u003e, introduced differential and integral \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calculus\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ecalculus\u003c\/a\u003e into \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Probability_theory\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eprobability theory\u003c\/a\u003e; the problem of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffon%27s_needle\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBuffon's needle\u003c\/a\u003e in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Probability_theory\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eprobability theory\u003c\/a\u003e is named after him. In 1734 he was admitted to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Academy_of_Sciences\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrench Academy of Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e. During this period he corresponded with the Swiss mathematician \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabriel_Cramer\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eGabriel Cramer\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHis protector \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Ph%C3%A9lypeaux,_Count_of_Maurepas\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMaurepas\u003c\/a\u003e had asked the Academy of Sciences to do research on wood for the construction of ships in 1733. Soon afterward, Buffon began a long-term study, performing some of the most comprehensive tests to date on the mechanical properties of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ewood\u003c\/a\u003e. Included were a series of tests to compare the properties of small specimens with those of large members. After carefully testing more than a thousand small specimens without knots or other defects, Buffon concluded that it was not possible to extrapolate to the properties of full-size timbers, and he began a series of tests on full-size structural members.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn 1739 he was appointed head of the Parisian Jardin du Roi with the help of Maurepas; he held this position to the end of his life. Buffon was instrumental in transforming the Jardin du Roi into a major research centre and museum. He also enlarged it, arranging the purchase of adjoining plots of land and acquiring new botanical and zoological specimens from all over the world\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThanks to his talent as a writer, he was invited to join Paris's second great academy, the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAcadémie française\u003c\/a\u003e in 1753. In his \u003cem\u003eDiscours sur le style\u003c\/em\u003e (\"Discourse on Style\"), pronounced before the Académie française, he said, \"Writing well consists of thinking, feeling and expressing well, of clarity of mind, soul and taste ... The style is the man himself\" (\"\u003cem\u003eLe style c'est l'homme même\u003c\/em\u003e\").\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-3\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[3]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e Unfortunately for him, Buffon's reputation as a literary stylist also gave ammunition to his detractors: The mathematician \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_le_Rond_D%27Alembert\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJean le Rond D'Alembert\u003c\/a\u003e, for example, called him \"the great phrase-monger\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn 1752 Buffon married Marie-Françoise de Saint-Belin-Malain, the daughter of an impoverished noble family from Burgundy, who was enrolled in the convent school run by his sister. Madame de Buffon's second child, a son born in 1764, survived childhood; she herself died in 1769. When in 1772 Buffon became seriously ill and the promise that his son (then only 8) should succeed him as director of the Jardin became clearly impracticable and was withdrawn, the King raised Buffon's estates in Burgundy to the status of a county – and thus Buffon (and his son) became a Count. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e in 1782.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-AAAS-4\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[4]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e Buffon died in Paris in 1788.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHe was buried in a chapel adjacent to the church of Sainte-Urse Montbard; during the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Revolution\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrench Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e, his tomb was broken into and the lead that covered the coffin was ransacked to produce bullets. His \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heart\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eheart\u003c\/a\u003e was initially saved, as it was guarded by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzanne_Necker\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSuzanne Necker\u003c\/a\u003e (wife of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Necker\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJacques Necker\u003c\/a\u003e), but was later lost. Today, only Buffon's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cerebellum\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ecerebellum\u003c\/a\u003e remains, as it is kept in the base of the statue by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pajou\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePajou\u003c\/a\u003e that \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_XVI\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLouis XVI\u003c\/a\u003e had commissioned in his honor in 1776, located at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Museum_of_Natural_History\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMuseum of Natural History\u003c\/a\u003e in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eParis\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBuffon's \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Histoire_naturelle\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHistoire naturelle, générale et particulière\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (1749–1788: in 36 volumes; an additional volume based on his notes appeared in 1789) was originally intended to cover all three \"kingdoms\" of nature but the \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle\u003c\/em\u003e ended up being limited to the animal and mineral kingdoms, and the animals covered were only the birds and quadrupeds. \"Written in a brilliant style, this work was read ... by every educated person in Europe\".\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-Mayrp330-2\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[2]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e Those who assisted him in the production of this great work included \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis-Jean-Marie_Daubenton\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLouis-Jean-Marie Daubenton\u003c\/a\u003e, Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard, and Gabriel-Léopold Bexon, along with numerous artists. Buffon's \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle\u003c\/em\u003e was translated into many different languages, making him one of the most widely read authors of the day, a rival to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montesquieu\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMontesquieu\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rousseau\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRousseau\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voltaire\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn the opening volumes of the \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle\u003c\/em\u003e Buffon questioned the usefulness of mathematics, criticized \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Linnaeus\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCarl Linnaeus\u003c\/a\u003e's taxonomical approach to natural history, outlined a history of the Earth with little relation to the Biblical account, and proposed a theory of reproduction that ran counter to the prevailing theory of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Preformationism\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003epre-existence\u003c\/a\u003e. The early volumes were condemned by the Faculty of Theology at the Sorbonne. Buffon published a retraction, but he continued publishing the offending volumes without any change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn the course of his examination of the animal world, Buffon noted that despite similar environments, different regions have distinct plants and animals, a concept later known as Buffon's Law. This is considered to be the first principle of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biogeography\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ebiogeography\u003c\/a\u003e. He made the suggestion that species may have both \"improved\" and \"degenerated\" after dispersing from a center of creation. In volume 14 he argued that all the world's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadruped\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003equadrupeds\u003c\/a\u003e had developed from an original set of just thirty-eight quadrupeds.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-6\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[6]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e On this basis, he is sometimes considered a \"transformist\" and a precursor of Darwin. He also asserted that \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_change_(general_concept)\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eclimate change\u003c\/a\u003e may have facilitated the worldwide spread of species from their centers of origin. Still, interpreting his ideas on the subject is not simple, for he returned to topics many times in the course of his work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBuffon considered the similarities between humans and apes, but ultimately rejected the possibility of a common descent. He debated with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Burnett,_Lord_Monboddo\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJames Burnett, Lord Monboddo\u003c\/a\u003e on the relationship of the primates to man, Monboddo insisting, against Buffon, on a close relationship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAt one point, Buffon propounded a theory that nature in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_World\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eNew World\u003c\/a\u003e was inferior to that of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurasia\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eEurasia\u003c\/a\u003e. He argued that the Americas were lacking in large and powerful creatures, and that even the people were less virile than their European counterparts. He ascribed this inferiority to the marsh odors and dense forests of the American continent. These remarks so incensed \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThomas Jefferson\u003c\/a\u003e that he dispatched twenty soldiers to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Hampshire\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eNew Hampshire\u003c\/a\u003e woods to find a bull \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moose\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003emoose\u003c\/a\u003e for Buffon as proof of the \"stature and majesty of American quadrupeds\".\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-bullmoose-8\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[8]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e Buffon later admitted his error.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLes époques de la nature\u003c\/em\u003e (1778) Buffon discussed the origins of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_system\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003esolar system\u003c\/a\u003e, speculating that the planets had been created by a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comet\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ecomet\u003c\/a\u003e's collision with the sun.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-9\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[9]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e He also suggested that the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_the_Earth\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eearth originated\u003c\/a\u003e much earlier than 4004 BC, the date determined by Archbishop \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Ussher\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJames Ussher\u003c\/a\u003e. Basing his figures on the cooling rate of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iron\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eiron\u003c\/a\u003e tested at his Laboratory the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Petit_Fontenet.JPG\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePetit Fontenet\u003c\/a\u003e at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montbard\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMontbard\u003c\/a\u003e, he calculated that the age of the earth was 75,000 years. Once again, his ideas were condemned by the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sorbonne\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSorbonne\u003c\/a\u003e, and once again he issued a retraction to avoid further problems.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-10\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[10]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRacial studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBuffon and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Blumenbach\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJohann Blumenbach\u003c\/a\u003e were believers in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monogenism\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003emonogenism\u003c\/a\u003e, the concept that all races have a single origin. They also believed in the \"Degeneration theory\" of racial origins. They both said that \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_and_Eve\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAdam and Eve\u003c\/a\u003e were \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caucasian_race\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCaucasian\u003c\/a\u003e and that other races came about by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Degeneration\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003edegeneration\u003c\/a\u003e from environmental factors, such as the sun and poor diet. They believed that the degeneration could be reversed if proper environmental control was taken, and that all contemporary forms of man could revert to the original \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caucasian_race\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCaucasian race\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBuffon and Blumenbach claimed that \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pigmentation\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003epigmentation\u003c\/a\u003e arose because of the heat of the tropical sun. They suggested cold wind caused the tawny colour of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eskimos\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eEskimos\u003c\/a\u003e. They thought the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_people\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eChinese\u003c\/a\u003e relatively fair-skinned compared to the other Asian stocks because they kept mostly in towns and were protected from environmental factors. Buffon said that food and the mode of living could make races degenerate and distinguish them from the original Caucasian race.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon#cite_note-Harris-11\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[11]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBelieving in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monogenism\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003emonogenism\u003c\/a\u003e, Buffon thought that skin color could change in a single lifetime, depending on the conditions of climate and diet. Buffon was an advocate of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asia_hypothesis\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAsia hypothesis\u003c\/a\u003e; in his \u003cem\u003eHistoire Naturelle\u003c\/em\u003e, he argued that humans' birthplace must be in a high temperate zone. As he believed good climate conditions would breed healthy humans, he hypothesized that the most logical place to look for the first humans' existence would be in Asia and around the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caspian_Sea\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCaspian Sea\u003c\/a\u003e region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville, Comte de Lacépède\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e26 December 1756 – 6 October 1825)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBGE Delaville, Comte de Lacepede was a French \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_history\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003enaturalist\u003c\/a\u003e and an active \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freemason\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003efreemason\u003c\/a\u003e. He is known for his contribution to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comte_de_Buffon\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eComte de Buffon\u003c\/a\u003e's great work, the \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Histoire_Naturelle\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHistoire Naturelle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLacépède was born at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agen\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAgen\u003c\/a\u003e in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guienne\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eGuienne\u003c\/a\u003e. His education was carefully conducted by his father, and the early perusal of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBuffon\u003c\/a\u003e's Natural History (\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Histoire_naturelle\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHistoire naturelle, générale et particulière\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e) awakened his interest in that branch of study, which absorbed his chief attention. His leisure he devoted to music, in which, besides becoming a good performer on the piano and organ, he acquired considerable mastery of composition, two of his operas (which were never published) meeting with the high approval of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christoph_Willibald_Gluck\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eGluck\u003c\/a\u003e; in 1781–1785 he also brought out in two volumes his \u003cem\u003ePoétique de la musique\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMeantime he wrote two treatises, \u003cem\u003eEssai sur l'électricité\u003c\/em\u003e (1781) and \u003cem\u003ePhysique générale et particulière\u003c\/em\u003e (1782–1784), which gained him the friendship of Buffon, who in 1785 appointed him subdemonstrator in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jardin_du_Roi\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJardin du Roi\u003c\/a\u003e, and proposed that he continue Buffon's \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle\u003c\/em\u003e. This continuation was published under the titles \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpents\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eTome premier\u003c\/em\u003e (1788) and \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle des \u003c\/em\u003eserpents\u003cem\u003e. Tome second\u003c\/em\u003e (1789).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAfter the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Revolution\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrench Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e Lacépède became a member of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legislative_Assembly_(France)\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLegislative Assembly\u003c\/a\u003e, but during the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reign_of_Terror\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eReign of Terror\u003c\/a\u003e he left Paris, his life having become endangered by his disapproval of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_Massacres\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003emassacres\u003c\/a\u003e. When the Jardin du Roi was reorganised as the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jardin_des_Plantes\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJardin des Plantes\u003c\/a\u003e and as the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Museum_of_Natural_History,_France\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMuséum National d'Histoire Naturelle\u003c\/a\u003e in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1793\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e1793\u003c\/a\u003e, Lacépède was appointed to the chair allocated to the study of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reptiles\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ereptiles\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fishes\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003efishes\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn 1798, he published the first volume of \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle des poissons\u003c\/em\u003e, the fifth volume appearing in 1803, and in 1804 appeared his \u003cem\u003eHistoire des cétacées\u003c\/em\u003e. From this period until his death the part he took in politics prevented him making any further contribution of importance to science.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn 1799, he became a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A9nat_conservateur\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003esenator\u003c\/a\u003e, in 1801 president of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A9nat_conservateur\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003esenate\u003c\/a\u003e (a role he also fulfilled in 1807–08 and 1811–13), in 1803 grand chancellor of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLegion of Honor\u003c\/a\u003e, in 1804 minister of state, and at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bourbon_Restoration\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBourbon Restoration\u003c\/a\u003e in 1819 he was created a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peerage_of_France\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003epeer of France\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHe died at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89pinay-sur-Seine\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eÉpinay-sur-Seine\u003c\/a\u003e. During the latter part of his life he wrote \u003cem\u003eHistoire générale physique et civile de l'Europe\u003c\/em\u003e, published posthumously in 18 volumes, 1826.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Germain_de_Lac%C3%A9p%C3%A8de#cite_note-EB1911-1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHe was elected perpetual secretary of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Academy_of_Sciences\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrench Academy of Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Institut_de_France\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eInstitute of France\u003c\/a\u003e in 1796, a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFellow of the Royal Society\u003c\/a\u003e in 1806 and a foreign member of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e in 1812.\u003csup\u003e[\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003csup\u003ecitation needed\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003csup\u003e]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLacépède was initiated into \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freemasonry\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003efreemasonry\u003c\/a\u003e at 22 years old at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Neuf_S%C5%93urs\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLes Neuf Sœurs\u003c\/a\u003e lodge in Paris, by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Lalande\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJérôme Lalande\u003c\/a\u003e the worshipfull master himself, who wanted a naturalist for his prestigious lodge. In 1785, Lacépède created his own lodge : \"Les Frères Initiés\". After the Revolution, he helped \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cambac%C3%A9r%C3%A8s\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCambacérès\u003c\/a\u003e to rebuild a French freemasonry submitted to the Emperor, and joined \"Saint-Napoléon\" lodge where \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7ois_Christophe_de_Kellermann\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eGeneral Kellermann\u003c\/a\u003e was worshipfull master. He finished his masonic life as dignitary of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grande_Loge_de_France\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSuprême Conseil de France\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eEvolution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLacépède was an early \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_evolutionary_thought\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eevolutionary\u003c\/a\u003e thinker. He argued for the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transmutation_of_species\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003etransmutation of species\u003c\/a\u003e. He believed that species change over time and may go extinct from geological cataclysms or become \"metamorphosed\" into new species.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Germain_de_Lac%C3%A9p%C3%A8de#cite_note-5\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[5]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e In his book \u003cem\u003eHistoire naturelle des poissons\u003c\/em\u003e, he wrote:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"The species can undergo such a large number of modifications in its forms and qualities, that without losing its vital capacity, it may be, by its latest conformation and properties, farther removed from its original state than from a different species: it is in that case metamorphosed into a new species.\"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Germain_de_Lac%C3%A9p%C3%A8de#cite_note-6\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003csup\u003e[6]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquarian Print Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31902139711574,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/antiquarianprintshop.com\/products\/various-artist-info-copy-of-a-template-astrolabe","provider":"Antiquarian Print Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}