Recueil des Éloges Historiques Lus dans les Séances Publiques de l'Institut Royal de France, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Georges, Cuvier

Biographies & Memoirs

Forgotten Books

Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

A founder of comparative anatomy and giant of 19th-century biology, Georges Cuvier began publishing his 22-volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons in 1828. Cuvier's history became a landmark survey in the science of fishes, delving back before the Greeks to the Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians. As an introduction to this monumental work, his first volume traced the development of the study of fishes as he understood it and outlined the criteria for classification that his own work would follow. This critically important essay -- arguably the first attempt at comprehensive marine biology -- now appears in English translation for the first time, accompanied by rich annotations.Theodore Pietsch's commentary on Cuvier's Histoire Naturelle des Poissons brings this important volume to light and highlights its historical significance. Appreciative modern readers will include ichthyologists, evolutionary biologists, and historians of science."Theodore Pietsch is a well-respected ichthyological historian particularly of pre-Linnaean periods. Those of us interested in these sorts of things should be eternally grateful to him for his time and energy in providing such a nicely edited volume that covers such a huge span of time. No one has written a comprehensive history of ichthyology and this work fills a truly major gap in early historical details." -- Brooks Burr, Southern Illinois University"This book is an important text for historians of science as well as ichthyologists." -- Alwyne Wheeler, editor Archives of Natural History

Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology, from its Origins to Our Own Time (Foundations of Natural History)

Johns Hopkins University Press

Histoire Naturelle des Poissons

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

History

BiblioLife

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) was a brilliant, influential, and powerful figure in natural science in the early nineteenth century, particularly famous for his work with the fossils of quadrupeds and his ability to reconstruct entire skeletal structures on the basis of a few fragments. Like many of his colleagues, Cuvier opposed evolution and yet, as a scientist, he could not ignore the evidence of past extinctions. Thus, he proposed that the history of the earth was characterized by a series of major calamities which had wiped out almost all creatures on the earth. The latest of these disasters occurred a few thousand years ago. The Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals was originally the introduction to an important book on quadruped fossils, but its popularity soon led to its being printed and translated as a separate volume. In it Cuvier sets down an argument for his views on the history the earth, a position that has come to be known as Catastrophism. However, the Discourse is more than a fascinating picture of the state of natural science in the years before Darwin s work, for it offers an enormously wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn about the history of human society from mythology, astrology, astronomy, and literature from all of the world s cultures to which Cuvier had access. Ian Johnston s fluent new translation of this landmark in the history of science also includes Cuvier s essay On the Ibis, in which Cuvier resolves a long dispute about the identity of this ancient bird.

Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth

Translated by Ian Johnston

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