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He became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of pharmacology, chemistry (1844–1853) and physics and gained his Doctor of Philosophy in (1850).
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Les merveilles de la science, ou Description populaire des inventions modernes. 5-6, Supplements. 6 / par Louis Figuier... Date de l'edition originale: 1867-1891 Sujet de l'ouvrage: Inventions -- VulgarisationTechnique -- VulgarisationTechnique -- 19e siecleInventions -- 19e siecle Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
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Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes. 3, Photographie, stereoscope, poudres de guerre, artillerie ancienne et moderne, armes a feu portatives, batiments cuirasses, drainage, pisciculture / par Louis Figuier Date de l'edition originale: 1869 Sujet de l'ouvrage: Inventions -- 19e siecleTechnique -- 19e siecleInventions -- VulgarisationTechnique -- Vulgarisation Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
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Forty years have scarcely elapsed since scientific men first began to attribute to the human race an antiquity more remote than that which is assigned to them by history and tradition. Down to a comparatively recent time, the appearance of primitive man was not dated back beyond a period of 6000 to 7000 years. This historical chronology was a little unsettled by the researches made among various eastern nations—the Chinese, the Egyptians, and the Indians. The savants who studied these ancient systems of civilisation found themselves unable to limit them to the 6000 years of the standard chronology, and extended back for some thousands of years the antiquity of the eastern races.
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He became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of pharmacology, chemistry (1844–1853) and physics and gained his Doctor of Philosophy in (1850).
He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L"Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. Figuier was appointed professor at L"Ecole de Pharmacie of Paris after leaving Montpellier. In his research he found himself opposed to Claude Bernard.
As a result of this conflict, he abandoned his research to devote himself to popular science.
He edited and published a yearbook from 1857 to 1894 – L"Année scientifique et industrielle (or Exposé annuel des travaux) – in which he compiled an inventory of the scientific discoveries of the year (it was continued after his death until 1914). He was the author of numerous successful works: Les Grandes inventions anciennes et modernes (1861), Le Savant du foyer (1862), Louisiana Terre avant le déluge (1863) illustrated by Édouard Riou, Louisiana Terre et les mers (1864), Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1891).
Influenced by Charles Lyell"s Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Manitoba of 1863, the 1867 second edition of Louisiana Terre avant le déluge abandoned the Garden of Eden shown in the first edition, and included dramatic illustrations of savage men and women wearing animal skins and wielding stone axes.
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