Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science

by Edward Lurie

Book Overview

A giant of nineteenth-century natural history study, Louis Agassiz made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontology, and zoology. Agassiz's fame in America was largely as a popularizer of natural history and teacher of advanced students. Founding the Museum of Comparative Zoology at harvard was his lasting teching and research achievement, and the Smithsonian Institution and National Academy of Sciences benefited from his impulse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080183743X
• ISBN13: 9780801837432
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"