Élie Bertrand

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Élie Bertrand (1713–1797) was a Swiss geologist and naturalist.

Publications (selection)

• Mémoires sur la structure intérieure de la terre (Heidegguer, Zurich, 1752).
• Essai sur les usages des montagnes, avec une lettre sur le Nil (Heidegguer, Zurich, 1754).
• Mémoires historiques et physiques sur les tremblemens de terre (Pierre Gosse junior, La Haye, 1757).
• Recherches sur les langues anciennes et modernes de la Suisse et principalement du pays de Vaud (C. et A. Philibert, Genève, 1758).
• Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres et des fossiles accidentels (in French). Vol. 1. Den Haag: Pierre Gosse & Daniel Pinet. 1763.
  • Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres et des fossiles accidentels (in French). Vol. 2. Den Haag: Pierre Gosse & Daniel Pinet. 1763.
• Essai sur l'art de former l'esprit, ou Premiers élémens de la logique (G. Regnault, Lyon, 1764).
• Recueil de divers traités sur l'histoire naturelle de la terre et des fossiles (L. Chambeau, Avignon, 1766) Read online.
• Lettre à M. le Cte de Buffon... ou Critique et Nouvel essai sur la théorie générale de la terre, avec une notice du dernier discours de M. Pallas, sur la formation des montagnes, sur les changemens arrivés au globe, etc. (Besançon, 1782).

External links

• Auguste Bertholet, "Le 'Mémoire sur la vie de Monsieur Elie Bertrand' (1783), ou la construction de la postérité d’un 'grand homme' des Lumières helvétiques", Trouvailles Lumières.Lausanne, n° 6, juin 2021, url: https://lumieres.unil.ch/publications/trouvailles/6/.
• Frank A. Kafker and Serena L. Kafker, The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 1988. ISBN 0-7294-0368-8 [1]
• Recueil de divers traités sur l'histoire naturelle de la terre et de fossiles (1766) - fully digitized facsimile from Linda Hall Library
• Description of Bertrand's work from a catalog of a 1984 exhibition about Theories of the Earth 1644-1830 at the Linda Hall Library (see paragraph at page bottom)
•  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• Historique du fonds de la bibliothèque d’Yverdon
• Marc Weidmann (1986). Un pasteur-naturaliste du XVIIIe siècle : Élie Bertrand (1713-1797) (in French). Vol. XCIV. Revue historique vaudoise. pp. 63–108.