A Translated and Annotated Version of the Original French Text by Edmond Perrier
Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1280 g
ISBN: 978-90-481-3008-5
Verlag: Springer
Jean Octave Edmond Perrier was a French zoologist who lived through the tumult of British Darwinism and Lyellism, and reminds us in this revealing account that French scientists had much to contribute to such perennial topics as evolution, catastrophism and creationism. While very much a product of the Third Republic, Perrier’s account also aimed to outline timeless issues and permanent advances in taxonomic and developmental biology since classical Greece and Rome. In this aim he succeeds with surprisingly modern perspectives for a book first published in 1884. Perrier was born May 9, 1844 at Tulle, the son of the principal of a school which now bears his name, Lycée Edmond Perrier. In 1864 he was accepted to the École Normale Supérieure, where he was strongly influenced by Louis Pasteur and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers. After working for three years at a high school in Agen, he obtained a post of naturalist-aid at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1868), advancing in that institution to Chair of Natural History of Molluscs, Worms and Corals (1876–1903) and then Director of the museum (1900–1919) and Chair of Comparative Anatomy (1903–1921). Previous directors of the museum included many of the scientists he discusses in this book: George Cuvier (1822–1823, 1826–1827, 1830–1831), Isidore Geoffrey St Hilaire (1860– 1861), and Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1891–1900). Perrier’s own research on echinoderms and earthworms took him on several expeditions in 1880-1885, mostly to Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, but also to the Caribbean.
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- Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
- Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläobotanik
Weitere Infos & Material
Aristotle.- The Roman Period.- The Middle Ages and Renaissance.- Evolution of the Concept of Species.- Philosophers of the XVIIIth Century.- Buffon.- Lamarck.- Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.- Georges Cuvier.- Debate between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.- Goethe.- Dugès.- The German Natural Philosophers.- The Theory of the Organic Types and its Consequences.- Louis Agassiz.- The Lower Animals.- Cell Theory and the Constitution of the Individual.- Embryology.- Species and their Modifications.