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---- Seconde édition REVUE, CORRIGEE et AUGMENTEE par l'auteur ---- "BRISSON (1723/1806) was professor of physics in the Collège de Navarre, Ecole Centrale and Lycée Bonaparte. He collaborated with Baumé, Macquer and Lavoisier in experiments on the combustion of diamonds. This comprehensive elementary textbook was written by BRISSON for his students. He drew on the works of Lavoisier, Guyton De Morveau, Chaptal, Berthollet, Fourcroy. Although it is a continuation of the author's Traité élémentaire ou principes de physique, it is complete in itself...". (Cole) ---- DSB II pp. 473/475 - Partington III p. 99**900/9000/O2