The representation of the geological times is often associated with the progressive pattern of the history of life, as it first became supported by the fossil records. However, most of the theories of the earth propounded by the naturalists at the beginning of the XlXth century didn 't suggest a world in progress. As they saw it, time was just a physical parameter which demonstrated a series of destructions and degenerations of the «old nature». Cuvier's catastrophism was soon reinterpreted in the schemes of developmental theories of life through geological times. This idealist vision of nature was connected with physico-theology which subordinate the hierarchy of species, front monads up to man, to the traditional argument front Design. In...
International audienceFrom the 19th Century onwards, the advent of the Darwinian revolution and Posi...
International audienceIn his Archaeology of the Earth (1803), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach tried to u...
Bien que les savants qui se penchent sur les questions relatives à la formation de la Terre soient p...
SUMMARY. — Biogeography is the study of the distribution of living creatures on the surface of the e...
Before 1 800, french naturalistes had already played a role essential in supporting scientific evolu...
International audienceDue to its richness in fossil localities and Fossil-Lagerstätten, France playe...
Dans ses Époques de la Nature (1778), Buffon nous présente une histoire de la Terre, divisée en une ...
SUMMARY. — The notion of an « advance of nature » is operating in the whole of pre-darwinian and non...
Le fossile est le siège incontournable de la connaissance du passé du vivant et par conséquent de ce...
International audienceThe Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe, published in 1825 by ...
SUMMARY. — Alcide d'Orbigny's main conceptions of the historical development of animal life on Earth...
Wolf Lepenies : From natural history to the history of nature. The last third of the 18th Century w...
SUMMARY. — Natural history, the theory of the earth, the question of fossils are subjects hardly to ...
GENUINE AND FAKE FOSSIL MEN... Summary. — Between 1856 and 1859, three major scientific events occur...
La géologie connaît à partir de la fin du 18ème siècle un véritable essor dont les conséquences ne t...
International audienceFrom the 19th Century onwards, the advent of the Darwinian revolution and Posi...
International audienceIn his Archaeology of the Earth (1803), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach tried to u...
Bien que les savants qui se penchent sur les questions relatives à la formation de la Terre soient p...
SUMMARY. — Biogeography is the study of the distribution of living creatures on the surface of the e...
Before 1 800, french naturalistes had already played a role essential in supporting scientific evolu...
International audienceDue to its richness in fossil localities and Fossil-Lagerstätten, France playe...
Dans ses Époques de la Nature (1778), Buffon nous présente une histoire de la Terre, divisée en une ...
SUMMARY. — The notion of an « advance of nature » is operating in the whole of pre-darwinian and non...
Le fossile est le siège incontournable de la connaissance du passé du vivant et par conséquent de ce...
International audienceThe Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe, published in 1825 by ...
SUMMARY. — Alcide d'Orbigny's main conceptions of the historical development of animal life on Earth...
Wolf Lepenies : From natural history to the history of nature. The last third of the 18th Century w...
SUMMARY. — Natural history, the theory of the earth, the question of fossils are subjects hardly to ...
GENUINE AND FAKE FOSSIL MEN... Summary. — Between 1856 and 1859, three major scientific events occur...
La géologie connaît à partir de la fin du 18ème siècle un véritable essor dont les conséquences ne t...
International audienceFrom the 19th Century onwards, the advent of the Darwinian revolution and Posi...
International audienceIn his Archaeology of the Earth (1803), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach tried to u...
Bien que les savants qui se penchent sur les questions relatives à la formation de la Terre soient p...