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About this book
Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier's extraordinary "History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day." Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this fourth of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences in the eighteenth century. It is truly astonishing in its detail and scope. Cuvier was fluent in many languages, English, German, Spanish, and certainly Latin, in addition to French. He was therefore well prepared to investigate and interpret firsthand the scientific literature of Europe as a whole. The work is an affirmation of Cuvier's vast encyclopedic knowledge, his complete command of the scientific and historical literature, and his incomparable memory. This history is remarkable also for providing in one place a large set of useful references to a vast ancient literature that is not easily found anywhere else. This huge body of information provides us furthermore with unique insight into Cuvier's concept of the natural sciences, and to the vast breadth and progress of this human endeavor. With this work, Cuvier fills an important gap in philosophical thought between the time of Carl Linnaeus and Charles Darwin.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Bibliographic informations
- First pages
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Préface
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Prefatory Comments
- Commentaires préliminaires
- Part one / Première partie. Additions to the History of Zoology During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Complément de l’histoire de la zoologie pendant la première moitié du dix-huitième siècle
- Part two / Deuxième partie. Methods / Méthodes
- Part three / Troisième partie. Additions to the History of Botany During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Complément de l’histoire de la botanique pendant la première moitié du dix-huitième siècle
- Part four / Quatrième partie. Contributions of Linnaeus and Buffon / Contributions de Linné et de Buffon
- Part five / Cinquième partie. History of Anatomy and Physiology During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / Histoire de l’anatomie et de la physiologie pendant la seconde moitié du dix-huitième siècle
- Acknowledgements
- Remerciements
- References / Bibliographie