‎GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Etienne‎
‎Principes de philosophie zoologique, discutés en Mars 1830 au sein de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.‎

‎Paris, Pichon, Didier, Rousseau, 1830.‎

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‎ Première édition. C'est l'ouvrage le plus important de Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Il expose ici sa théorie de "l'unité de composition organique" qui l'opposa à Cuvier au sein de l'Académie des Sciences. "La Nature n'a formé les êtres vivants que sur un plan unique, qu'elle a varié de mille manières dans toutes ses parties accessoires." Cette théorie fait de Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, avec Lamark, le fondateur du transformisme. C'est sans doute aussi cette idée, sous-jacente à la controverse, que combattait de manière virulente Cuvier qui l'accusa d'être un "panthéiste". Quelques rousseurs, cachet sur le titre. Bel exemplaire. /// In-8 de (4), 226, (1) pp. Basane raciné, dos orné, tranches marbrées. (Reliure de l'époque.) //// First edition. The most important book of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. "It was by comparative anatomy, teratology, and then paleontology that Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire strove to prove that species are transformed in the course of time, the simpler ones engendering the more complex. ... In France, and perhaps even more in English speaking countries, Geoffroys work is often ranked below that of Cuvier, his implacable adversary. Geoffroys awkward, style and sometimes bizarre ideas harmed him considerably; yet Cuvier himself recognized that Geoffroy possessed a great talent for description and classification. Moreover, Geoffroy revitalized comparative anatomy in France and created scientific teratology, experimental embryology, and the concept of paleontological evolution. ... He and his friend Lamarck lived too early to be completely understood." DSB 5, 358. /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET‎

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