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020 _a9781107049390 (ebook)
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050 4 _aQE501
_b.F53 1886
082 0 4 _a550
_223
100 1 _aFlammarion, Camille,
_d1842-1925,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aLe monde avant la création de l'homme :
_bOrigines de la terre, origines de la vie, origines de l'humanité /
_cCamille Flammarion.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1886.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (vi, 847 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Darwin, evolution and genetics
520 _aFrench astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) won acclaim for bringing science to a general readership. His Astronomie populaire (1880) and its translation into English as Popular Astronomy (1894) are both reissued in this series. The present work, on the origins of the Earth and humankind, sold tens of thousands of copies. Flammarion's original purpose was to update Zimmermann's Le monde avant la création de l'homme, published a quarter of a century earlier. However, scientific understanding had progressed so much that he decided to rewrite the work completely. First published in 1886, it contains some 400 wood engravings depicting dramatic landscapes, dinosaurs, fossils and much more. Ranging from early chapters on the universe and solar system, through to later discussion of the emergence of humankind after aeons of evolution, this book will prove an absorbing read for those interested in a nineteenth-century perspective on the origins of life.
650 0 _aPaleontology.
650 0 _aHuman beings
_xOrigin.
651 0 _aEarth (Planet)
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108067836
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pDarwin, evolution and genetics.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107049390
999 _c514694
_d514692