The natural history of animals : containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Wherein The Construction, Fabrick and genuine Use of the Parts, are exactly and finely delineated in Copper Plates, and the whole Enriched with many Curious Physical and no less useful Anatomical Remarks, being one of the most Considerable Productions of that Academy. Done into English by a Fellow of the Royal Society. To which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, Published by the Members of the same Academy: English'd by R.W. Srs. With an alphabetical table of the Names of the several Animals mention'd in this Volume. And likewise an Alphabetical Index to make the Work Compleat. Publish'd by an Order of Council of the Royal Society .

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Académie royale des sciences (France)

Contributor:

Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.

Standardized Title:

Description anatomique de divers animaux. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Geodesy--Early works to 1800.

Geodesy.

Triangulation--Early works to 1800.

Triangulation.

Anatomy, Comparative--Early works to 1800.

Anatomy, Comparative.

Earth (Planet)--Figure--Early works to 1800.

Earth (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([14],3-267,[13],40p.,plates )

Other Title:

Natural history of animals

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Smith, at the Angel and Bible without Temple Barr, 1702.

Notes:

Translated by Alexander Pitfield from the French work by Claude Perrault, first published in 1669 under the title: 'Description anatomique d'un caméleon', and later (in 1682) under the title: 'Description anatomique de divers animaux.' The 'Account' was translated by Richard Waller.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T113853.

OCLC:

642288015