Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time
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Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time
(Foundations of natural history)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
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Tableau historique des progrès de l'ichtylogie
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  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Bibliography: p. [287]-348
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A founder of comparative anatomy and giant of 19th-century biology, Georges Cuvier began publishing his 22-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 and outlined the criteria for classification that his own work would follow. This essay - arguably the first attempt at comprehensive marine history - now appears in English translation, accompanied by annotations. Theodore Pietsch's commentary on Cuvier's "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons" brings this work to light and its historical significance. It should be useful reading to ichthyologists, evolutionary biologists and historians of science.
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