- Bib ID:
- 3100535
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840
- Description:
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- Göttingen : Heinrich Dieterich, 1810
- 1 v. : 100 ill. ; 20 cm.
- Partial contents:
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- 4. O-Mai
- 8. Certhia sannio
- 28. Anguis platuros
- 41. Ornithorhynchus paradoxus [platypus]
- 46. Aptenodytes chrysocome
- 54. Didelphis marupialis.
- Biography/History:
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Blumenbach was a German naturalist, anthropologist, physican, historian and bibliographer. Regarded as the founder of physical and scientific anthropology.
- Notes:
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- Consists of 100 numbered plates accompanied by text of animals incl. recently discovered ones.
- A collected work which is a re-arrangement of the 1st ed.
- Cole Library considers 1810 ed. a [2nd ed.]
- Includes a description, classification and plate of the platypus, given the taxonomic classification Ornithorynchus paradoxus by Blumenbach.
- Cited In:
- Cole Library of early medicine and zoology, 1987.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1840
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1810
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