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Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence (Dodo Press) | 
 enlarge | Author: Louis Agassiz
Creator: Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
Publisher: Dodo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1964135
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 428
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1406505463
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781406505467
ASIN: 1406505463
Publication Date: March 28, 2006
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Product Description
Biography of the Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist credited with the 'discovery' of an ice age.
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Scholarly, and not May 10, 2007
This is a rich resource for anyone interested in Agassiz or science in the age of Humboldt and Darwin, especially American science, but there are some things that potential buyers should be aware of.
This book consisits largely (over 80%) of letters written by Agassiz, and sometimes written to him by prominent scientists like Humboldt. The rest consists of introductions and links written by Agassiz's wife. This prevents it from being the kind of comprehensive biography that some readers might be looking for. It's better to start with the Lurie biography, which also offers a better understanding of the scientific era and issues in which Agassiz was involved. This book doesn't do justice to the fact that Agassiz was a highly controversial figure; you would barely guess that he was a major opponent of Darwin and thus destroyed his scientific reputation. This book goes beyond being Agassiz-friendly and into the realm of being a whitewash of history. A publishing defect of this book is that it lacks a functional index: it does have a list of subjects but they have no page numbers; maybe the page numbers never got transferred from the original book to this reprint edition. Another small defect is that the letters and linking texts are often not clearly separated. The positive side of this book is that it does reveal Agassiz more candidly than the Lurie biography.
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