Cuvier and Zoology
Author: Georges Léopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Baron Cuvier
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Georges Léopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Baron Cuvier
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Coleman
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780674283695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Coleman
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book undermined many of the traditional myths about Cuvier.
Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0226731081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology. Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier's essential writings on fossils and catastrophes and links these translated texts together with his own insightful narrative and interpretive commentary. "Martin Rudwick has done English-speaking science a considerable service by translating and commenting on Cuvier's work. . . . He guides us through Cuvier's most important writings, especially those which demonstrate his new technique of comparative anatomy."—Douglas Palmer, New Scientist
Author: Alex McBirney
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-08-21
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9048130093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jean Octave Edmond Perrier was a French zoologist who lived through the tumult of British Darwinism and Lyellism, and reminds us in this revealing account that French scientists had much to contribute to such perennial topics as evolution, catastrophism and creationism. While very much a product of the Third Republic, Perrier’s account also aimed to outline timeless issues and permanent advances in taxonomic and developmental biology since classical Greece and Rome. In this aim he succeeds with surprisingly modern perspectives for a book first published in 1884. Perrier was born May 9, 1844 at Tulle, the son of the principal of a school which now bears his name, Lycée Edmond Perrier. In 1864 he was accepted to the École Normale Supérieure, where he was strongly influenced by Louis Pasteur and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers. After working for three years at a high school in Agen, he obtained a post of naturalist-aid at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1868), advancing in that institution to Chair of Natural History of Molluscs, Worms and Corals (1876–1903) and then Director of the museum (1900–1919) and Chair of Comparative Anatomy (1903–1921). Previous directors of the museum included many of the scientists he discusses in this book: George Cuvier (1822–1823, 1826–1827, 1830–1831), Isidore Geoffrey St Hilaire (1860– 1861), and Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1891–1900). Perrier’s own research on echinoderms and earthworms took him on several expeditions in 1880-1885, mostly to Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, but also to the Caribbean.
Author: Georges baron Cuvier
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 9781139567091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →French zoologist and naturalist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), one of the most eminent scientific figures of the early nineteenth century, is best known for laying the foundations of comparative anatomy and palaeontology. He spent his lifetime studying the anatomy of animals, and broke new ground by comparing living and fossil specimens - many he uncovered himself. However, Cuvier always opposed evolutionary theories and was during his day the foremost proponent of catastrophism, a doctrine contending that geological changes were caused by sudden cataclysms. He received universal acclaim when he published his monumental Le règne animal, which made significant advances over the Linnaean taxonomic system of classification and arranged animals into four large groups. The sixteen-volume English translation and expansion, The Animal Kingdom (1827-35), is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. First published in 1817, Volume 3 of the original version covers molluscs, arachnids and insects.
Author: Georges baron Cuvier
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by French naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier, this monumental work of natural history surveys various species of the animal kingdom known in the early 19th century. The Animal Kingdom cemented Cuvier's reputation as an authority on animal identification and classification and embodied Cuvier's previous researchon the structure of living and fossil animals. It was translated into English many times, often with substantial notes and supplementary material updating the book in accordance with the expansion of knowledge. This volume covers birds and mammals.
Author: Bruce Boehrer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 775
ISBN-13: 1108581161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands.