Cuvier's History of the Natural Sciences : Nineteen lessons from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

• Main Author: Georges Cuvier (auth)
• Other Authors: Theodore Wells Pietsch (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Publications scientifiques du Muséum 2015
• Subjects: human sciences; history of science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 first of a five-volume series, translated from the original Fre...