Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology / Tableau historique des progrès de l'ichtyologie From Its Origins to Our Own Time / Depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours

• Main Author: Cuvier, Georges (auth)
• Other Authors: Pietsch, Theodore W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Paris Publications scientifiques du Muséum 2020
• Series: Archives
• Subjects: History of science; history of science; ichthyology; zoology
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A founder of comparative anatomy and a giant of nineteenth-century biology, Georges Cuvier, and his student and colleague Achille Valenciennes, brought together all that was known about fishes in their massive 22-volume Histoire naturelle des poissons published from 1828 to 1849. Despite the passage...