Introduction to the Study of Natural History Edited and Annotated by Christoph Irmscher /

• Main Author: Agassiz, Louis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Irmscher, Christoph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2017.
• Series: Classic Texts in the Sciences,
• Subjects: History.; Plant science.; Botany.; Zoology.; History of Science.; Plant Sciences.

This book features Louis Agassiz’s seminal lecture course in which the Swiss-American scientist, a self-styled “American Humboldt,” summarized the state of zoological knowledge in his time. Though Darwin’s theory of evolution would soon dismantle his idealist science, Agassiz’s lectures are nonethel...