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The wikipedia project working on: Alexandre Brongniart

Team Partner: Elissa Mefford

Draft (Patrick)
In his early ages, Brongniart focused on the studies of reptiles and published Essai dune classification naturally des reptiles in 1800. In this paper, Brongniart discussed the anatomy of the reptiles and based on his observations, he divided the Reptilia class into four groups -- Chelonia, Sauria, Ophidia and Batrachia. However, even-though he classified Batrachia as a sub-class of Reptilia, Brongniart noticed a huge difference in the anatomy of Batrachia compared to the rest of the class. This problem was resolved in 1804 by Pierre Latreille by replacing Batrachia into a class called Amphibians, and the rest of the Reptilia grouping was retained.

Collaboration with Georges Cuvier: The most significant work for Brongniart was Essai sur la géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris in collaboration with Georges Cuvier on studies of geology around Paris in 1811. At the time, Cuvier was trying figure out the periods the fossils are from and to reconstruct the extinct mammals based on the periods they are from. Brongniart joined Cuvier and they started looking at the strata that the fossils were found in across the Paris region. The paper was first read to the public on April, 1808 but was extended in June, 1808 and later on 1811. They were the among the first people to study the earth by its fossil content instead of relying on the characteristics of rocks. During the collaboration, they also found evidences against Abraham Werner's Neptunism. The results triggered Cuvier into creating catastrophism. SwarleyPat (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Review by K8shep (talk) 13:34, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
1. What does the article do well? Is there anything from your review that impressed you? Any turn of phrase that described the subject in a clear way? Excellent work here!! Keep it up. 2. What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article? Why would those changes be an improvement? Not much, Patrick. You've done a lot of good work here. Maybe link to some other pages to fine-tune what you've done. A picture or something? 3. What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article? Keep up the good work!!

Sources for project

 * 1) Dawson, A. (1999). Journal of Design History, 12(1), 81-83. Retrieved March 6, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/1316229.
 * 2) Tamara Preaud, Derek E Ostergard. The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the triumph of art and industry, 1800-1847 (book requested through library)