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Joseph Leidy : the last man who knew everything / Leonard Warren.
LIBRA QH31.L6 W37 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warren, Leonard, 1924-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891.
- Leidy, Joseph.
- Naturalists--United States--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- United States.
- Natural History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Natural History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- This is the first published biography of the remarkable Joseph Leidy (1823-91), a scientist of astonishing achievement and breadth of interests. A man who seemed to know everything, Leidy was-among many other things-the foremost human anatomist of his time, the first truly productive microscopist, the father of American protozoology and parasitology, and the founder of American invertebrate paleontology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300073593
- OCLC:
- 38566507
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