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Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology: From Its Origins to Our Own Time - Couverture rigide

Cuvier, Georges Baron

 
9780801849145: Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology: From Its Origins to Our Own Time
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0801849144 ISBN 13 : 9780801849145
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 essay - arguably the first attempt at comprehensive marine history - now appears in English translation, accompanied by annotations. Theodore Pietsch's commentary on Cuvier's "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons" brings this work to light and its historical significance. It should be useful reading to ichthyologists, evolutionary biologists and historians of science.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801849144
ISBN 13 
9780801849145
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
504
Éditeur
Pretsch Theodore W., Pietsch Theodore W.
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