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Cuvier's Animals: 867 Illustrations from the Classic Nineteenth-Century Work
Magnificent illustrations from rare classic on animal kingdom offers spectacular array of mammals, birds, reptiles, mollusks, crustacea, arachnids, insects, and other creatures — all beautifully engraved in accurate detail in natural, lifelike poses. Royalty-free illustrations for artists and craftspeople; fascinating engravings for students and natural history buffs.
128 pages, Paperback
First published July 23, 1996
About the author
Georges Cuvier
1,151 books21 followersFrench zoologist Baron Georges Léopold Cuvier developed influential methods of comparative anatomy and applied them to fossil and living animals.
People knew Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, a naturalist. Cuvier, an instrumental major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, established the field of paleontology through his work.
People consider work of Cuvier as the foundation of vertebrate paleontology, and he grouped classes into phyla and incorporated species into the classification to expanded Linnaean taxonomy. Cuvier also established well known extinction as a fact; many contemporaries at the time considered this merely controversial speculation. In Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1813), Cuvier proposed that after periodic catastrophic floods, something created new species. In this way, Cuvier most propelled catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century. His study of the strata of the basin of Paris with Alexandre Brongniart established the basic principles of biostratigraphy.
Among other accomplishments, Cuvier established that bones, found in the United States of America, belonged to an extinct elephant that he later named as a mastodon, and people dug a large skeleton in Paraguay of Megatherium, a giant, prehistoric sloth. He also named but discovered not the aquatic reptile Mosasaurus and the pterosaur Pterodactylus and first suggested that reptiles, rather than mammals, dominated the earth in prehistoric times.
He authored Le Règne Animal ( The Animal Kingdom ), his most famous work, in 1817. In 1819, people created him a peer in honor of his scientific contributions. Thereafter, people knew him. He died in Paris during an epidemic of cholera.
Louis Agassiz on the continent and in America, and Richard Owen in England followed Cuvier. People inscribed his name and 71 other names on the Eiffel tower.
People knew Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, a naturalist. Cuvier, an instrumental major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, established the field of paleontology through his work.
People consider work of Cuvier as the foundation of vertebrate paleontology, and he grouped classes into phyla and incorporated species into the classification to expanded Linnaean taxonomy. Cuvier also established well known extinction as a fact; many contemporaries at the time considered this merely controversial speculation. In Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1813), Cuvier proposed that after periodic catastrophic floods, something created new species. In this way, Cuvier most propelled catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century. His study of the strata of the basin of Paris with Alexandre Brongniart established the basic principles of biostratigraphy.
Among other accomplishments, Cuvier established that bones, found in the United States of America, belonged to an extinct elephant that he later named as a mastodon, and people dug a large skeleton in Paraguay of Megatherium, a giant, prehistoric sloth. He also named but discovered not the aquatic reptile Mosasaurus and the pterosaur Pterodactylus and first suggested that reptiles, rather than mammals, dominated the earth in prehistoric times.
He authored Le Règne Animal ( The Animal Kingdom ), his most famous work, in 1817. In 1819, people created him a peer in honor of his scientific contributions. Thereafter, people knew him. He died in Paris during an epidemic of cholera.
Louis Agassiz on the continent and in America, and Richard Owen in England followed Cuvier. People inscribed his name and 71 other names on the Eiffel tower.
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