Louis Figuier
Louis Figuier (1819–1894) was a French scientist and writer. He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. He became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of pharmacology, chemistry (1844–1853) and physics and gained his PhD in (1850). Figuier was appointed professor at L'Ecole de Pharmacie of Paris after leaving Montpellier. In his research he found himself opposed to Claude Bernard; as a result of this conflict, he abandoned his research to devote himself to popular science. He edited and published a yearbook from 1857 to 1894 – L'Année scientifique et industrielle (or Exposé annuel des travaux) – in which he compiled an inventory of the scientific discoveries of the year (it was continued after his death until 1914). He was the author of numerous successful works: Les Grandes inventions anciennes et modernes (1861), Le Savant du foyer (1862), La Terre avant le déluge (1863) illustrated by Édouard Riou, La Terre et les mers (1864), Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1891).
Influenced by Charles Lyell's Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man of 1863, the 1867 second edition of La Terre avant le déluge abandoned the Garden of Eden shown in the first edition, and included dramatic illustrations of savage men and women wearing animal skins and wielding stone axes.[1]
Main works
- La terre avant le deluge, 1863, 2nd. edition 1867
- English translation, World Before the Deluge, 1872
- Swedish translation by Carl Hartman, Jorden före syndafloden, 1868, based on the 5th French edition
- The Vegetable World, 1867
- The Ocean World, 1868
- The Insect World, 1868
- Reptiles and Birds, 1869
- Primitive Man, 1871
- The human race, 1872[2][3]
- Les Merveilles De La Science, Ou Description Populaire Des Inventions Modernes, (The wonders of science or a popular description of modern inventions), 1891
Footnotes
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External links
- Works by Louis Figuier at Project Gutenberg
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- Figuier's Merveilles de la science (6 vols., 1867-1891) - digital facsimiles from Linda Hall Library
- A selection of high-resolution scans from Figuier's L'homme primitif, Primitive man, and Terre avant deluge - from Linda Hall Library
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