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100 1 $aCuvier, Georges,$cbaron,$d1769-1832.
240 10 $aHistoire des sciences naturelles.$lEnglish & French
245 10 $aCuvier's history of the natural sciences :$btwenty-four lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance /$cedited and annotated by Theodore W. Pietsch ; foreword by Philippe Taquet ; translated by Abby J. Simpson.
246 15 $aHistoire des sciences naturelles de Cuvier :$bvingt-quatre leçons de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance
246 31 $aHistory of the natural sciences
260 $aParis :$b[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle],$cc2012.
300 $a734 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aArchives / Muséum national d'histoire naturelle,$x1281-7139
490 1 $aPublications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
546 $aEnglish translation, followed by original French text; critical matter in French and English.
500 $aAdded t.p. in French.
500 $a"Traduction de l'appareil critique par Beatrice D. Marx & Éric Andret" and "Nouvelle édition de Theordore W. Pietsch"--Added title page.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 699-706) and index.
505 0 $aForeword / by Philippe Taquet -- Introduction -- The earliest beginnings. Lesson 1. The antiquity of sciences ; Lesson 2. The Chinese, Indians, Babylonians, and Egyptians ; Lesson 3. The Egyptians continued -- The Greek world. Lesson 4. The Greeks ; Lesson 5. The Greek schools ; Lesson 6. Socrates and his disciples -- Aristotle and his disciples. Lesson 7. Aristotle and his History of animals ; Lesson 8. Aristotle's History of animals continued ; Lesson 9. The treatises of Theophrastus ; The Roman world. Lesson 10. The rise of Rome ; Lesson 11. The Golden Age of Rome ; Lesson 12. The Roman Empire -- Pliny, his contemporaries, and followers. Lesson 13. Pliny and his Natural history ; Lesson 14. The Roman poets ; Lesson 15. Aelian of Praeneste and Oppian of Anazarbus ; Lesson 16. Galen of Pergamum -- The waning of the Empire. Lesson 17. The last centuries of the Empire ; Lesson 18. Contributions of the ancients : a summary ; Lesson 19. The fall of Rome -- The Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Lesson 20. The Byzantine Empire ; Lesson 21. The Arabians and Latin speaking nations ; Lesson 22. The Crusades ; Lesson 23. Albert the Great and Roger Bacon, inventions and discovery -- Summary. Lesson 24. Antiquity and the Middle Ages : a summary.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
650 0 $aNatural history$xHistory.
700 1 $aPietsch, Theodore W.
710 2 $aMuséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)
700 1 $aCuvier, Georges,$cbaron,$d1769-1832.$tHistoire des sciences naturelles.
700 1 $aPietsch, Theodore W.,$eeditor.
700 12 $aCuvier, Georges,$cbaron,$d1769-1832.$tHistoire des sciences naturelles.
830 0 $aArchives (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France))
830 0 $aPublications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
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