Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology/Tableau Historique Des Progrès de l'Ichtyologie, 29: From Its Origin to Our Own Time/Depuis Son Ori

By: Cuvier, Georges

A founder of comparative anatomy and giant of nineteenth-century biology, Georges Cuvier began publishing his twenty-two-volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons in 1828. Cuvier's history became a landmark survey in the science of fishes, delving back before the Greeks to the Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians. As an introduction to this monumental work, his first volume traced the development of the study of fishes as he understood it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2856538878
• ISBN13: 9782856538876
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: French National Museum Natural History
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"