Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes

Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0226731081

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French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology. Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier's essential writings on fossils and catastrophes and links these translated texts together with his own insightful narrative and interpretive commentary. "Martin Rudwick has done English-speaking science a considerable service by translating and commenting on Cuvier's work. . . . He guides us through Cuvier's most important writings, especially those which demonstrate his new technique of comparative anatomy."—Douglas Palmer, New Scientist

Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier

Author: Dorinda Outram

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1000534774

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This book, first published in 1984, examines the lifetime of Georges Cuvier, and in his constant and varying struggles to retain his position both as a politician and as a leading naturalist we find displayed almost all of the political tensions of Restoration France. Our understanding of the new French intellectual elite is enhanced if we can explain what sort of power this group wielded, and how it related to the structure of politics as a whole. Cuvier’s career epitomises this relationship to the highest degree. Examination of the building of his career under the Directory and Empire offers many new insights into the way the expanding market for science, the restructuring of society as a whole, and the moral authority of science itself could be utilised as resources in the making of a reputation. The influence of scientific competition and controversy on Cuvier’s scientific work is examined at length, and it is argued that they exerted a decisive effect on the structure of his biological and geological thinking.

The Cuvier-Geoffrey Debate
The Cuvier-Geoffrey Debate

Author: Toby A. Appel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1987-03-26

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0195364805

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For scientists, no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the celebrated French scientific controversy that focused the attention of naturalists in the first decades of the nineteenth century on the conflicting claims of teleology, morphology, and evolution, which ultimately contributed to the making of Darwin's theory. This history describes not only the scientific dimensions of the controversy and its impact on individuals and institutions, but also examines the meaning of the debate for culture and society in the years before Darwin.

The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate

Author: Toby A. Appel

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0195041380

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Explores the historical and scientific issues that made comparative anatomy central to 19th-century biology and fostered the development of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Discourse on the Revolutions
Discourse on the Revolutions

Author: Baron George Cuvier

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781978392069

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Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (August 23, 1769 - May 13, 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. He established animal extinctions as a fact, and was the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century. His most famous work is the Le Règne Animal (1817; English: The Animal Kingdom). In 1819, he was created a peer for the life in honor of his scientific contributions. Thereafter he was known as Baron Cuvier.

Cuvier's Animals
Cuvier's Animals

Author: Georges baron Cuvier

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780486291024

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Spectacular array of mammals, birds, reptiles, mollusks, crustacea, arachnids, insects, and other creatures all beautifully engraved in accurate detail and depicted in natural life-like poses. "

Animals, Animality, and Literature
Animals, Animality, and Literature

Author: Bruce Boehrer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 775

ISBN-13: 1108581161

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Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands.