Louis Agassiz

A Life in Science

By: Edward Lurie

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Paperback | 14 December 1988

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A giant of nineteenth-century natural history study, Louis Agassiz made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontology, and zoology. Agassiz's fame in America was largely as a popularizer of natural history and teacher of advanced students. Founding the Museum of Comparative Zoology at harvard was his lasting teching and research achievement, and the Smithsonian Institution and National Academy of Sciences benefited from his impulse to professionalize science. A life-long opponent of the theory of evolution. Agassiz affirmed the magnificence of God's plan to all who would "study nature, not books."

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"By far the best work on this central figure in the history of American biology." -- Stephen Jay Gould By far the best work on this central figure in the history of American biology.--Stephen Jay Gould "By far the best work on this central figure in the history of American biology." -- Stephen Jay Gould

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