History of Quadrupeds: Volume 2 - Couverture souple

Pennant, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108005179 ISBN 13 : 9781108005173

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

A beautifully illustrated two-volume book on the classification of mammals, published in 1793, and read by Charles Darwin.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Thomas Pennant (1726–98) was a keen geologist, naturalist and antiquary. Linnaeus supported his election to the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in 1757, and in 1767 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. His History of Quadrupeds (1793), aimed to promote natural history among a wider readership, originated in an informal index to John Ray's Synopsis of 1693. In his preface, Pennant acknowledges the monumental Histoire naturelle by the Comte de Buffon, as well as works by Klein (1751), Brisson (1756), and particularly the work of Linnaeus, though Pennant strongly disagreed with Linnaueus's classification of primates as including humans with apes. Pennant's two-volume book, beautifully illustrated with over 100 engravings, provides an overview of the state of zoological classification at the end of the eighteenth century. Charles Darwin owned a copy and had it sent to him in South America during the Beagle voyage.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108005179
• ISBN 13: 9781108005173
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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