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1469

#89

Historia naturalis, libri XXXVII.

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79)

The most ancient Western encyclopedia extant, Pliny’s Historia contained essentially all that was known in his time concerning geography, mineralogy, anthropology, botany, zoology and meteorology. Books XX-XXXII deal …

1590

#2244

Historia natural y moral de las Indias.

ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)

One of the earliest detailed and realistic descriptions of the New World. Acosta hypothesized that the indigenous peoples of Latin America had migrated from Asia. He also divided the native peoples into three barbaria…

1841 –1854

#11902

Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté...pendant...1837-1840, sous le commandement de M. J. DUMONT D'URVILLE... publié... sour la direction supérieure de M. [C. H.] Jacquinot, &c. 23 vols. in 22.

DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790 – 1842) DUMOUTIER, Pierre-Marie-Alexandre (1797 – 1873) BLANCHARD, Charles Émile (1819 – 1900) JACQUINOT, Charles Hector (1796 – 1879) HOMBRON, Jacques Bernard (1798 – 1852) PUCHERAN, Jacques (1817 – 1895) GUICHENOT, Antoine Alphonse (1809 – 1876) LUCAS, H. ROUSSEAU, L. MONTAGNE, Jean Pierre François Camille (1784 – 1866)

DECAISNE, Joseph (1807 – 1882) GRANGE, J. VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, Clément Adrien (1811 – 1858) COUPVENT-DESBOIS, Aimé Auguste Élie (1814 – 1892)

In 1836 King Louis-Philippe, enthusiastic for Southern Hemisphere exploration, sponsored Dumont d'Urville's plan for a circumnavigation focusing on the South Seas. D'Urville had already distinguished himself on two Pa…