Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time / Georges Cuvier ; edited by Theodore W. Pietsch ; translated by Abby J. Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832.

Contributor:

Pietsch, Theodore W.

Series:

Foundations of natural history

Standardized Title:

Tableau historique des progrès de l'ichtylogie. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ichthyology--History.

Ichthyology.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 366 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Summary:

A founder of comparative anatomy and giant of 19th-century biology, Georges Cuvier began publishing his 22-volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons in 1828. Cuvier's history became a landmark survey in the science of fishes, delving back before the Greeks to the Egyptians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians. As an introduction to this monumental work, his first volume traced the development of the study of fishes as he understood it and outlined the criteria for classification that his own work would follow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-348) and index.

ISBN:

0801849144

OCLC:

31374302