Reading his name, no references came up. Never heard of him.
Looking for him on the internet, I suppose I found him: Bourgelat (Claude), Lyon 27th March 1712- January 3rd 1779. If this is the man which you meant, then I could find that he was a veterinarian, who was the founder of the veterinarian academy and surgery in France. All his books had a veterinary perspective, as far as I understand.
-Eléments d'hippiatrique, ou nouveaux principes sur la connaissance et sur la medecine des chevaux (Lyon, 1750-1753) -Anatomie comparée du cheval, du boeuf et du mouton (Paris, 1766) -Matière médicale raisonnée. (Lyon, 1765); -Traité de la conformation extérieure du cheval, de sa beauté et de ses défauts (Paris, 1769) -Mémoire sur les maladies contagieuses du bétail (Paris, 1775); -Règlement sur les écoles vétérinaires de France (Paris, 1777).
I suppose the first publication is the original French version of your "A New System of Horsemanship". It seems to me, that it is not a specific book about riding, but more about how to keep and treat horses, in common, from a veterinarian perspective. His vision was new in his times, apparently.
Beside this, it is not likely that he was a sort of Baucher. The year 1754 is still completely within the baroque time area, with Spanish (typed) horses and corresponding method of riding.
Only from the beginning of the 19th century the riding culture is changing. After disappearing of the baroque typed horse, and the attendance of the Arabian and English Thoroughbred, the riding principals had to be changed, due to different morphological characteristics (exterior and movement) and physical possibilities of the available horses. And to differed needs in the daily use of the horse. In this period, people like Baucher stood up, and disseminated their renewed conception of training a horse.
But around 1750 there was for a Claude Bourgelat no reason at all to "renew" something in riding in the way Baucher c.s. did.
Thank you, Atjan. I started to read it, just because I am curious and want to know. But it is a little hard to read, being printed in a very old font that is confusing at times and translated from the French by an Englishman.
Reading his name, no references came up. Never heard of him.
AntwortenLöschenLooking for him on the internet, I suppose I found him: Bourgelat (Claude), Lyon 27th March 1712- January 3rd 1779. If this is the man which you meant, then I could find that he was a veterinarian, who was the founder of the veterinarian academy and surgery in France. All his books had a veterinary perspective, as far as I understand.
-Eléments d'hippiatrique, ou nouveaux principes sur la connaissance et sur la medecine des chevaux (Lyon, 1750-1753)
-Anatomie comparée du cheval, du boeuf et du mouton (Paris, 1766)
-Matière médicale raisonnée. (Lyon, 1765);
-Traité de la conformation extérieure du cheval, de sa beauté et de ses défauts (Paris, 1769) -Mémoire sur les maladies contagieuses du bétail (Paris, 1775);
-Règlement sur les écoles vétérinaires de France (Paris, 1777).
I suppose the first publication is the original French version of your "A New System of Horsemanship". It seems to me, that it is not a specific book about riding, but more about how to keep and treat horses, in common, from a veterinarian perspective. His vision was new in his times, apparently.
Beside this, it is not likely that he was a sort of Baucher. The year 1754 is still completely within the baroque time area, with Spanish (typed) horses and corresponding method of riding.
Only from the beginning of the 19th century the riding culture is changing. After disappearing of the baroque typed horse, and the attendance of the Arabian and English Thoroughbred, the riding principals had to be changed, due to different morphological characteristics (exterior and movement) and physical possibilities of the available horses. And to differed needs in the daily use of the horse. In this period, people like Baucher stood up, and disseminated their renewed conception of training a horse.
But around 1750 there was for a Claude Bourgelat no reason at all to "renew" something in riding in the way Baucher c.s. did.
Thank you, Atjan. I started to read it, just because I am curious and want to know. But it is a little hard to read, being printed in a very old font that is confusing at times and translated from the French by an Englishman.
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