Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time / Georges Cuvi...
Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time / Georges Cuvi...
Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time / Georges Cuvier ; edited by Theodore W. Pietsch ; translated by Abby J. Simpson.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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1995.
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T0388223
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xxiv, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Pt. 1. The Earliest Beginnings. 1. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians. 2. Aristotle and His Disciples. 3. Roman Ichthyology and the Silence of the Middle Ages -- Pt. 2. The Sixteenth-Century Revival. 4. Belon, Rondelet, and Salviani, Their Contemporaries and Immediate Successors. 5. Anato...
14. Improvements in Classification. 15. Anatomical and Physiological Contributions of the Early Nineteenth Century. 16. Materials for the Histoire Naturelle des Poissons -- Appendix: Philosophy of Animal Classification / Georges Cuvier.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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1995.
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Historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology : from its origins to our own time / Georges Cuvier ; edited by Theodore W. Pietsch ; translated by Abby J. Simpson.
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Foundations of natural history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-348) and index.
Transferred from N597.009/1.
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T0388223
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0801849144 (acid-free paper)
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597.009
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