Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741, Beaucaire – 1824, Montpellier) was a French physician and naturalist.[1] He was the son of Guillaume Amoreux, also a physician and an inventor of surgical devices.[2] He was the librarian at the Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier, in English Medical college of Montpellier. He was the author of many works on medicine, agriculture, botany and natural history. The most important are:

References

  1. ^ Scholars in Action (2 vols): The Practice of Knowledge and the Figure of the Savant in the 18th Century. BRILL. 2013-04-15. pp. 91–92. ISBN 978-90-04-24391-0.
  2. ^ Rivoire, Jacques Nicolas Hector (1842). Statistique du département du Gard (in French). pp. 629–630.