ISBN: 9781108049672 - the animal kingdom: volume 14: the class insecta 1: arranged in conformity with its organization (cambridge library collection - life sciences) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Published between 1827 and 1835, this illustrated sixteen-volume work translates French scientist Georges Cuvier's hugely influential Le Regne Animal. Editor(s): Pidgeon, Edward. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology. Num Pages: 674 pages, 65 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDX; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 840. . 2012. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), made a peer of France in 1819 in recognition of his work, was perhaps the most important European scientist of his day. His most famous work, Le Règne Animal, was published in French in 1817; Edward Griffith (1790-1858), a solicitor and amateur naturalist, embarked on in 1824, with a team of colleagues, an English version which resulted in this illustrated sixteen-volume edition with additional material, published between 1827 and 1835. Cuvier was the first biologist to compare the anatomy of fossil animals with living species, and he named the now familiar 'mastodon' and 'megatherium'. However, his studies convinced him that the evolutionary theories of Lamarck and St Hilaire were wrong, and his influence on the scientific world was such that the possibility of evolution was widely discounted by many scholars both before and after Darwin. Volume 14 is the first of two covering insects. …

Zustand: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 674 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Published between 1827 and 1835, this illustrated sixteen-volume work translates French scientist Georges Cuvier's hugely influential Le Règne Animal.