Louis Figuier: 75 books

Book cover of Works of Louis Figuier
by Louis Figuier
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

4 works of Louis Figuier French scientist and writer (1819-1894) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Louis Figuier. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Primitive Man The Human Race The World Before the Deluge Yesterdays with Authors
Book cover of Primitive Man
by Louis Figuier
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017

Primitive Man by Louis Figuier has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. Published in numerous editions and translated into virtually every modern language, Figuier’s Primitive Man has not been out of print since 1871. It presents the evidence of actual...
Book cover of Primitive Man
by Louis Figuier
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The important art of placing scientific knowledge, and especially new discoveries and topics of present controversy, within easy reach of educated readers not versed in their strictly technical details, is one which has for years been carried to remarkable perfection in France, in no small measure through...
Book cover of Les Merveilles de la science/Photographie - Supplément
by Louis Figuier
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

Depuis la publication de notre Notice sur la Photographie, dans lesMerveilles de la science[1], une véritable révolution s’est opérée dans la pratique de cet art. Un procédé nouveau, le procédé au gélatino-bromure d’argent, est venu détrôner la plupart des anciens modes opératoires....
Book cover of Les Merveilles de la science/Éthérisation
by Louis Figuier
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

Soulager la douleur est une œuvre divine, a dit Hippocrate. Lorsque le père de la médecine exprimait cette idée, il parlait seulement de ces palliatifs insuffisants ou infidèles employés de son temps pour atténuer, dans le cours des maladies, les effets de la douleur. La découverte de l’éthérisation...
Book cover of Les Merveilles de la science/Poudres de guerre - Supplément
by Louis Figuier
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

La guerre de 1870 avait surpris la France dans un regrettable état d’infériorité militaire. Tandis qu’en dehors de nos frontières tout se transformait, et que l’art de la guerre profitait largement des nouvelles découvertes de la science, nous en étions encore à nos vieux errements. Tandis...
Book cover of Les Merveilles de la science/La Photographie
by Louis Figuier
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

Il y a bien des motifs divers pour aimer, pour admirer cette invention brillante de la photographie, qui sera l’honneur de ce siècle et la gloire de notre patrie. Mais parmi les titres si nombreux qui la désignent à nos hommages, il en est un qui frappe surtout : c’est le témoignage éclatant...
Book cover of The World Before the Deluge
by Louis Figuier
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The observer who glances over a rich and fertile plain, watered by rivers and streams which have, during a long series of ages, pursued the same uniform and tranquil course; the traveller who contemplates the walls and monuments of a great city, the first founding of which is lost in the night of ages,...
Book cover of Reptiles and Birds: A Popular Account of Their Various Orders, With a Description of the Habits and Economy of the Most Interesting
by Louis Figuier
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

There is little apparent resemblance between the elegant feathered warbler which makes the woods re-echo to its cheerful song, and the crawling reptile which is apt to inspire feelings of disgust when the more potent sensation of terror is absent—between the familiar Swallow, which builds its house...
Book cover of The Human Race
by Louis Figuier
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

What is man? A profound thinker, Cardinal de Bonald, has said: “Man is an intelligence assisted by organs.” We would fain adopt this definition, which brings into relief the true attribute of man, intelligence, were it not defective in drawing no sufficient distinction between man and the brute....
Book cover of The Ocean World

The Ocean World

Being a Description of the Sea and its Living Inhabitants (Illustrations)

by Louis Figuier, Charles O. Groom-Napier
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

Example in this ebook "Our Planet is surrounded by two great oceans," says Dr. Maury, the eminent American savant: "the one visible, the other invisible; one is under foot, the other over head. One entirely envelopes it, the other covers about two-thirds of its surface." It is proposed in...
Book cover of The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and its Living Inhabitants
by Louis Figuier
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Our Planet is surrounded by two great oceans, says Dr. Maury, the eminent American savant: "the one visible, the other invisible; one is under foot, the other over head. One entirely envelopes it, the other covers about two-thirds of its surface." It is proposed in "The Ocean World" to give a brief record...
Book cover of Les Merveilles de la science/La planète Neptune
by Louis Figuier
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

La science, comme la guerre, a ses actions d’éclat. L’histoire des travaux de l’esprit humain nous fournit quelques exemples de ces sortes de hauts faits scientifiques dans lesquels la grandeur de la découverte, l’imprévu de ses résultats, l’étendue de ses conséquences, les difficultés...
Book cover of Les Merveilles de la science/Télégraphe aérien - Supplément
by Louis Figuier
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

Le télégraphe aérien n’étant plus aujourd’hui en usage en aucun lieu du monde, on peut se demander comment nous nous proposons de donner unSupplément à notre Notice sur le Télégraphe aérien. C’est que la télégraphie aérienne, c’est-à-dire la correspondance obtenue...
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