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  • The Curious Death of Peter Artedi

    A Mystery in the History of Science

    by Theodore W. Pietsch ...
    Told through the voice of a pivotal figure in the Age of Enlightenment, this entertaining work of historical fiction explores the world of old Amsterdam and the mysterious death of a young scientist. When Peter Artedi and Carl Linnaeus first meet in March 1729 as students at Uppsala University, they take an immediate liking to each other and soon form an intense intellectual bond. Sharing their ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    The Eighteenth Century

    by Theodore W. Pietsch ...
    Series series Archives
    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this fourth of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences in the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Frogfishes

    Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology

    by Theodore W. Pietsch, Rachel J. Arnold ...
    The authoritative expert's guide to fascinating frogfishes and their unusual lives.Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Single Volume Reference in Science by the Association of American PublishersUnique among the world's fishes, frogfishes display a bizarre combination of attributes and behaviors that make them a subject of fervent study. Through cunning and trickery, they turn would-be predators ... Read more

    $144.99 CAD

  • Charles Plumier (1646-1704) and His Drawings of French and Caribbean Fishes

    by Theodore Wells Pietsch ...
    Series series Des planches et des mots
    Never was a man so denied a place in history than Father Charles Plumier. Craftsman, illustrator, and engraver, but best known for his work as a botanist, Plumier devoted the better part of his life to collecting and illustrating plants and animals. Working nearly a century before the great eighteen-century describers of the untold number of new organisms flooding into Europe at the time, the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    Nineteen lessons from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Georges Cuvier ...
    Series series Archives
    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this first of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning more ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    Twenty lessons from the first half of the Eighteenth Century

    by Georges Cuvier ...
    Series series Archives
    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this third of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    Twenty-four lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance

    by Georges Cuvier ...
    Series series Archives
    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this first of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning more ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology / Tableau historique des progrès de l’ichtyologie

    From Its Origins to Our Own Time / Depuis son origine jusqu’à nos jours

    by Georges Cuvier ...
    Series series Archives
    A founder of comparative anatomy and a giant of nineteenth-century biology, Georges Cuvier, and his student and colleague Achille Valenciennes, brought together all that was known about fishes in their massive 22-volume Histoire naturelle des poissons published from 1828 to 1849. Despite the passage of time, this work represents a landmark in the history of science, indispensable to systematic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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