Le monde avant la création de l'homme
Origines de la terre, origines de la vie, origines de l'humanité
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
- Author: Camille Flammarion
- Date Published: April 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108067836
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French 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.
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- Date Published: April 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108067836
- length: 882 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 44 mm
- weight: 1.5kg
- contains: 412 b/w illus. 13 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Avertissement des éditeurs
Les premiers jours de la terre
Livre I. Le Commencement du Monde:
1. La genèse des mondes. Les nébuleuses
2. La formation du système solaire
3. La naissance de la terre
Livre II. L'Age Primordial:
1. Les origines de la vie
2. Les origines de la vie (cont.)
3. Développement et progression de la vie
4. Premières plantes et premiers animaux
Livre III. L'Age Primaire:
1. Les époques de la nature
2. Les transformations actuelles du sol
3. Le développement de la vie
4. La période carbonifère
5. Fin des temps primaires
Livre IV. L'Age Secondaire:
1. La période triasique
2. La période jurassique
3. La période crétacée
Livre V. L'Age Tertiare:
1. La période éocène
2. La période miocène
3. La période pliocène
Livre VI. L'Age Quaternaire:
1. Le quatrième âge de la vie terrestre et les premiers jours de l'ère actuelle
2. La création de l'homme
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