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The Insect World
Louis Figuier
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R2,330
Discovery Miles 23 300
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Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
Louis Figuier (1819-94) was destined to remain in academia until
disagreements with fellow scholars led him to abandon this path and
instead pursue 'the idea that scientific knowledge, which until
then had been almost exclusively the property of the learned,
should be put within the reach of the reading public'. Published in
1863, La Terre avant le deluge became a classic of popular science
and introduced palaeontology to a wider readership; that this
English translation appeared only two years later is an indication
of its impact. Figuier wrote that his aim was 'to trace the
progressive steps by which the earth has reached its present state
... and to describe the various convulsions and transformations
through which it has successively passed'. The book was also
celebrated for its inclusion of more than 200 illustrations by a
pupil of Dore, Edouard Riou (1833-1900), who became famous as Jules
Verne's illustrator a few years later.
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