Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: 1772-1844: A Visionary Naturalist

by Hervé Le Guyader

A professor at twenty-one and member of the Napoleon's Egyptian expedition at twenty-six, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a man of one idea, which he formulated when he was twenty-four. Nature, he thought, had formed all living beings with one single plan.

This was a revolutionary idea--and one vigorously opposed by Geoffroy's colleague Georges Cuvier, a great anatomist and one of the giants of French science. In 1830, their long-running disagreement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226470911
• ISBN13: 9780226470917
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"