Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026
Cuvier’s History of the natural sciences Vol. 1: Twenty-four lessons from antiquity to the renaissance, translated from the French by A. J. Simpson. Vol. 2: Nineteen lessons from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, translated from the French by B. D. Marx. Vol. 3: Twenty lessons from the first half of the eighteenth century. Edited and annotated by T. W. Pletsch.
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Paris: Publications Scientifiques du Muséum and Bibliothèque Centrale, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 2012 CE–2018 CE.
Annotated English editions and translation of Cuvier's 5 volume Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusqu’a nos jours, originally published in French from 1841 to 1845.
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| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #12465 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/14698 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | cuviers-history-of-the-natural-sciences-twentyfour-lessons-from-antiquity-to-the-renaissance-the-first-of-georges-cuviers-fivevolume-histoire-des-sciences-naturelles-depuis-leur-origine-jusqua-nos-jours-originally-published-in-french-from-1841-to-1845-edited-and-annotated-by-t-w-pietsch-translated-from-the-french-by-a-j-simpson- |
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Publication place: Paris