Cuvier's history of the natural sciences : twenty lessons from the first half of the Eighteenth Century / edited and annotated by Theodore W. Pietsch ; foreword by Pietro Corsi ; translated by Fanja Andriamialisoa = L'histoire des sciences naturelles de Cuvier : vingt leçons sur la première moitié du dix-huitième siècles / nouvelle édition de Theodore W. Pietsch ; préface de Pietro Corsi ; traduction de la préface et des notes par Agathe Larcher-Goscha.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832, author.

Contributor:

• Pietsch, Theodore W., editor.
• Corsi, Pietro, writer of preface.
• Larcher-Gosha, Agathe, translator.
• Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

• Collection Archives (Editions Michèle Trinckvel) ; 26.
• Archives ; 26

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Science--History--18th century.
• Science.
• History.
• Natural history--18th century.
• Natural history.

Physical Description:

575 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Histoire des sciences naturelles de Cuvier : vingt leçons sur la première moitié du dix-huitième siècles

Place of Publication:

Paris : Muséum publications scientifiques, [2018]

Language Note:

Text in French with English translations.

Summary:

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 third of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning roughly fifty years, from the close of the seventeenth century to approximately 1750. It is truly astonishing in its detail and scope. 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.

Contents:

• Foreword / Pietro Corsi
• Introduction
• Major scientific advances preceding the eighteenth-century
• Scientific impact of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Early eighteenth-century advances in earth sciences
• Early eighteenth-century advances in chemistry
• Early eighteenth-century advances in mineralogy and paleontology
• Early eighteenth-century advances in physiology
• Early eighteenth-century advances in reproduction history
• Early eighteenth-century advances in zoology
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Illustrations
• Index
• Table of contents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-557) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Contains:

• Container of: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832. Histoire des sciences naturelles de Cuvier.
• Container of: Cuvier, George, baron, 1769-1832. Cuvier's history of natural science. English.

ISBN:

• 9782856538210
• 2856538215

OCLC:

1046071063

Publisher Number:

99980832001

Online:

The Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund Home Page