Gideon Mantell

**Gideon Algernon Mantell** (Lewes in oppido natus die 3 Februarii 1790; mortuus Londinii die 10 Novembris 1852) fuit chirurgus et palaeontologus. Filius sutoris Methodistae, propter religionem e scholis publicis exclusus, privatim in oppido nativo et apud patruum Westburiae educatus est. Tiro apud chirurgum hanc artem didiscit. Magister anno 1811 apud Regium Collegium Chirurgorum receptus, ipse chirurgus ab eodem anno Lewes in oppido, ab 1833 Brightoniae, ab 1838 in suburbio Londiniensi Clapham operam dedit.

Puer iuvenisque mineralia et fossilia quaesitabat. De geologia aevi praesertim Cretacei comitatuum Sussexiae et Surregiae, de palaeontologia animalium exstinctorum eiusdem aevi libros et symbola composuit museumque fossilium apud se congerebat. Opus huius generis primum, *The Fossils of the South Downs* () sub patronatu regio prodit. Necessitate tam otii quam pecuniarum semper vexatus, collectum palaeontologicum anno 1838 Museo Britannico vendidit.

Genera et species palaeontologicas, quas alii eruditi mox sub dinosauriis ordinaturi erant, ille primus descripsit: *Iguanodon* (), *Mosasaurus hoffmanni* ( p. 207, cf.  pp. 242-246), *Hylaeosaurus armatus* (), *Regnosaurus northamptoni* (), *Pelorosaurus* ().

## Scripta 
[thumb|*[Iguanodon*: dentes a Gideone Mantell descripti ( tab. 14)]]
[thumb|*[Pelorosaurus conybeari*: humerus a Gideone Mantell descriptus ( tab. 21)]]
[thumb|*[Leptopleuron lacertinum*, a Gideone Mantell sub synonymo *Telerpeton elginense* descriptum ( tab. 4)]]
; Libri
* 1822 : 
* 1831 : *A narrative of the visit of their most gracious Majesties William IV and Queen Adelaide to the ancient borough of Lewes* Textus apud *Internet Archive*
* 1833 : 
* 1838 : *The wonders of geology, or A familiar exposition of geological phenomena* vol. 1 vol. 2
* 1844 : *The medals of creation, or First lessons in geology, and in the study of organic remains* Vol. 1-2 apud *Hathi Trust*
** 2a ed. 1854 (editore T. Rupert Jones) : *The medals of creation, or First lessons in geology, and the study of organic remains* vol. 1 vol. 2
* 1845 (sine nomine auctoris) : *Memoirs of the life of a country surgeon* Textus apud *Internet Archive*
* 1846 : *Thoughts on animalcules, or A glimpse of the invisible world revealed by the microscope* Textus apud *Internet Archive*
** 2a ed., 1850 : *The invisible world revealed by the microscope, or Thoughts on animalcules* Textus apud *Internet Archive*
* 1847 : *Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire* Textus apud *Internet Archive*
* 1849 : *Thoughts on a pebble; or, A first lesson in geology* Textus apud *Internet Archive*
* 1850 : ''A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world" and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology"* Textus apud *Internet Archive*
* 1850 (auctore principali E. W. Brayley) : *A topographical history of Surrey* vol. 1 vol. 2 vol. 3 vol. 4 vol. 5
* 1851 : *Petrifactions and their teachings, or A hand-book to the gallery of organic remains of the British Museum* Textus apud *Internet Archive*

; Symbola selecta
* 1824 : "Outlines of the natural history of the environs of Lewes" in Thomas Walker Horsfield, *The History and Antiquities of Lewes and Its Vicinity* vol. 1 appendix
* 1825 : 
* 1829 : 
* 1831 : "The Geological Age of Reptiles" in *Edinburgh new philosophical journal* vol. 11 (Apr.-Sept. 1831) pp. 181-185
* 1845 : "Notes of a microscopical examination of the chalk and flint of the South-east of England; with remarks on the animalculites of certain tertiary and modern deposits" in *Annals And Magazine of Natural History* vol. 16
* 1848 (a) : 
* 1848 : "On the fossil remains of birds collected in New Zealand by Walter Mantell, Esq., of Wellington" in *Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London* no. 15
* 1849 : "Observations on the osteology of the Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus" in *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society* (1849 pars 2)
* 1850 (a) : 
* 1850 : "Supplementary observations on the structure of the Belemnite and Belemnoteuthis" in *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society* (1850 pars 2)
* 1850 : "On a dorsal dermal spine of the hylaeosaurus, recently discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest" in *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society* (1850 pars 2)
* 1850 : "Notice of the discovery by Mr Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis" in Proceedings of the Zoological Society* no. 214
* 1852 (cum Lambart Brickenden) : 
* 1852 : "On the structure of the iguanodon, and on the fauna and flora of the Wealden formation" in *Notices of the Meetings of the Royal Institution*
* 1852 : "A few notes on the structure of the Belemnite" in *Annals And Magazine of Natural History*

## Notae 
## Bibliographia 
* Thomas George Bonney, "Mantell, Gideon Algernon" in 
* Eric Buffetaut, "Mantell, Cuvier, Buckland and the identification of Iguanodon: a contribution based on unpublished annotations by Mantell" in *Oryctos* vol. 2 (1999) pp. 101-109
* E. Cecil Curwen, ed., *The journal of Gideon Mantell, surgeon and geologist, covering the years 1818-1852*. Londinii: Oxford University Press, 1940
* Dennis R. Dean, "A bicentenary retrospective on Gideon Algernon Mantell, 1790–1852" in *Journal of Geological Education* vol. 30 (1990) pp. 434–43
* Dennis R. Dean, *Gideon Algernon Mantell: a bibliography with supplementary essays*. Delmar Novi Eboraci, 1998
* Dennis R. Dean, *Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs*. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-42048-2 
* Dennis R. Dean, "Mantell, Gideon Algernon" in 
* P. Taquet, "Cuvier-Buckland-Mantell et les dinosaures" in E. Buffetaut, J. M. Mazin, E. Salmon, edd., *Actes du symposium paléontologique Georges Cuvier [Montbeliard, 1982] (1983) pp. 475–94
* T. G. Vallance, "Gideon Mantell, 1790–1852: a focus for study in the history of geology at the Turnbull Library" in *Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin* vol. 21 (1984) pp. 91–100
* Rob Walker, "Gideon Mantell: forgotten man who discovered the dinosaurs" in *The Guardian* (3 Februarii 2019)

* Taxa Mantell

## Nexus externi 
* "Gideon Mantell" apud *The Dinosaur Hunters of History''

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Categoria:Mortui 1852
Categoria:Chirurgi
Categoria:Palaeontologi Britanniae
Categoria:Eruditi Angliae