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Cuvier's History of the Natural Sciences: Twenty-Four Lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance (2012)

Pietsch, Theodore W. (Editor)
Simpson, Abby J. (Translator)
Marx, Béatrice D. (Translator)

Simpson, Abby J.
Marx, Béatrice D.
Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

ISBN: 9782856536841

Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 734 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Available for the first time in English, Georges Cuvier's extraordinary History of the Natural Sciences provides a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning more than three millennia. Cuvier had encyclopedic knowledge, an incomparable memory, and fluency in many languages, making him the ideal person to investigate and interpret firsthand the scientific literature of Europe. Supplying a set of useful references to a vast ancient literature not easily found elsewhere, this first of five volumes offers new insight into the renowned French naturalist's concept of the natural sciences and the breadth of this human endeavor.

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Description On lectures given in 1829.

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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

Review Dorinda Outram (2016) Review of "Cuvier's History of the Natural Sciences: Twenty-Four Lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 186-187). unapi

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