Traité élémentaire ou principes de physique
Subtitle: fondés sur les connoissances les plus certaines, tant anciennes que modernes, & confirmés par l'expérience
By: par M. Brisson.
Publisher: Moutard
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Principes de physique.
Notes: LIBRARY HAS: v. 1-2.

Brisson (1723-1806) was professor of physics in the College de Navarre, the Ecole Centrales, and the Lycee Bonaparte, Paris.  "He compiled a table of specific gravities, with a history of the subject.  It is to such works that we must still turn for information on the specific gravities of turnips, maize, or treacle.  Brisson, although a physist, also tried his hand on two chemical books. He collaborated with Macquer, Cadet, Baume, and Lavoisier in experiments on the combustibility of diamong (1774)."