Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1240

GEORGES CUVIER (1769-1832) Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Déterville 1817 Vol. I: xxxvii, 540 pp.; Vol. II: xviii, 532 pp.; Vol. III: xxix, 653 pp.; Vol. IV: viii, 255 pp., 15 plates. 19.4 cm.

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Cuvier was the first to devise a systematic classification of the animal kingdom. He presented it first in a lecture in 1796 and published it two years later; he continued to expand his work, culminating in these four volumes on the animal kingdom published in 1817. In them, he classified animal life into four main types: Vertebrata, Mollusca, Articulata, and Radiata, thus laying the foundation for the great expansion of comparative anatomy later in the century.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 327 (1836-1849 ed.); Waller 14796; Wellcome II, p. 423

Gift of John Martin, M.D.