‎GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (Isidore)‎
‎Propositions sur LA MONSTRUOSITE considérée chez l'homme et chez les animaux -- EDITION ORIGINALE DE LA THESE DE DOCTORAT PRESENTEE PAR Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE A LA FACULTE DE MEDECINE DE PARIS -- TRES RARE‎

‎P., Didot, 1829, un volume in 4, broché, couverture muette moderne, 75pp.‎

Reference : 5359

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE de la THESE de doctorat présentée par Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire à la Faculté de médecine de Paris le 14 Août 1829 ---- TRES RARE ---- "The only son of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore wanted to become a mathematician ; but his father saw in him the continuator of his work and engaged him in his laboratory as an aide-naturaliste in 1824... In 1833 he entered the Academy of Sciences. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire continued his father's work, which he strengthened and made more exact... His important views on the persistence of infantile characteristics among the primates and on "parallel" evolution appear to be original... Although the idea of seeking laws governing the formation of monsters was his father's, Isidore nonetheless grouped and brought into accord, judiciously and critically, a great number of scattered facts. In 1832 he coined the word teratology to designate the science of monsters. His work on the description and classification of the mammals, especially of the apes, was original and successful...". (DSB V pp. 358/359) ---- cf. Garrison N° 534.58 ---- Propositions générales sur l'organisation - Sur les monstruosités (définitions et divisions, circonstances précédant ou accompagnant la naissance des monstres, circonstances relatives au monstre lui-même, viabilité des monstres, remarques générales sur les caractères et l'organisation des monstres, organisation et caractères des monstres simples, causes de la monstruosité)**5359/E7.Doss‎