Book ID: CBB990098370

Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences: Nineteen Lessons from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2015)

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Available for the first time in English, Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day draws on a series of 1829 to 1832 public lectures to provide a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning more than three millennia. This second of five volumes demonstrates further how Cuvier’s encyclopedic knowledge, incomparable memory, and fluency in many languages in addition to French, made him the ideal person to investigate and interpret firsthand the scientific literature of Europe. Heavily annotated with detailed commentary, the series not only supplies a set of useful references on a vast ancient literature not easily found elsewhere, but also offers new insight into the breadth of this human endeavor and the renowned French naturalist’s concept of the natural sciences, filling an important gap in philosophical thought between the time of Carl Linnaeus and Charles Darwin.

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Review Gina Douglas (2018) Review of "Cuvier's History of the Natural Sciences: Twenty-Four Lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance". Archives of Natural History (pp. 180-181). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Generali, Dario
Yamina Bettahar
Gori, Pietro
Bognon-Küss, Cécilia
Hamid, Nabeel
Stuart, Matthew
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Natural science
Naturalists
Experiments and experimentation
Epistemology
Natural philosophy
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Europe
France
Italy
Tasmania (Australia)
Prussia (Germany)
Australia
Institutions
School of Milan
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Institut de France, Paris
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