Figuier, Louis.

The World Before the Deluge. With 235 Illustrations. Edited and Revised by H.W. Bristow and Robetrt Brown.

London, Cassel and Company, 1891. 12,5 cm x 19,5 cm. VIII, 518 pages. Including a Table and Diagram of British Sedimentary and Fossiliferous Strata. Original, decorative Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Original brown cloth with dark brown lettering and illustration, gilt lettering on spine and gilt grammar school logo on back. Written dedication on front free endpaper.

Includes for example the following essays: Consideration of Fossils / Modification’s of the Earth’s Surface / Old Red Sandstone and Devonian Period / Jurassic Period / European Deluges / Plutonic Eruptions / Carboniferous Limestone / Lower Oolite Fauna / Upper Creta ceous Period / Creation of Man / Asiatic Deluge etc etc.

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). (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: Asiatic Deluge · Fossils · Geology · Geology – Rare · Natural History – Rare · Volcano · Volcanoes · Volcanology
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 71087AB

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