Buch, Englisch, 2028 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 3520 g
Buch, Englisch, 2028 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 3520 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
ISBN: 978-1-108-08380-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), one of the founding figures of vertebrate palaeontology, pursued a successful scientific career despite the political upheavals in France during his lifetime. In the 1790s, Cuvier's work on fossil mammoths enabled him to recognise that these were a different species from modern elephants, and that extinction was a scientific fact. He went on to show that many other large mammals had also become extinct. This four-volume work, originally published in 1812, is a collection of Cuvier's geological and osteological papers, focusing on fossil mammals including mastodon, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ruminants, horses and pigs, and related living species. The introductory essay considers human origins and the formation of the earth, and appeared in English translation in 1813 (also available). Cuvier went on to publish his famous Le règne animal, available in the Cambridge Library Collection both in French (1817) and in Edward Griffith's expanded English translation (1827–35).
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Volume 1: Avertissement; Discours préliminaire; Mémoire sur l'ibis des anciens Egyptiens; Description minéralogique des environs de Paris; Corrections et additions aux tomes II, III et IV. Volume 2: 1. Remarques générales sur la famille des pachydermes; 2. Description ostéologique et comparative du daman; 3. Description ostéologique du rhinocéros unicorne; 4 Sur les ossemens fossiles de rhinocéros; 5. Sur l'hippopotame et sur son ostéologie; 6. Sur les ossemens fossiles d'hippopotames; 7. Description ostéologique du tapir; 8. Sur les ossemens fossiles de tapir; 9. Sur les éléphans vivans et fossiles; 10. Sur le grand mastodonte, vulg. animal de l'Ohio; 11. Sur divers mastodontes de moindre taille; 12. Résumé général de cette première partie. Volume 3: 1. Introduction; 2. Sur les espèces d'animaux dont proviennent les os fossiles de Paris. Volume 4: 1. Ossemens de ruminans, de chevaux, et de cochons; 2. Ossemens de carnassiers et d'autres onguiculés; 3. Ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes.
