Louis Figuier

Louis Figuier studied at Lycée Joffre. Training under Nicolas Joly is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is medicine and chemistry. Employment is recorded with Faculty of Pharmacy of Montpellier, Faculté des sciences pharmaceutiques et biologiques and Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. Works named in the authority record are Mammalia. Their various orders and habits popularly illustrated by typical species. Work by Louis Figuier is recorded in the collections of Photography Collection. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Montyon Prize.

Figuier became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of pharmacology, chemistry (1844–1853) and physics and gained his PhD in (1850). Figuier was appointed professor at the École 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), La Terre avant le déluge (1863) illustrated by Édouard Riou, La Terre et les mers (1864), Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1891). He wrote extensively on the subject of photography, including it in his study on the marvels of nineteenth-century science, and also writing a self-standing book on the subject. Influenced by Charles Lyell's Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man of 1863, the 1867 second edition of La 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.

• Illustration — Illustration from La Terre avant le déluge • La Terre avant le déluge, 1863, 2nd. edition 1867 • English translation, World Before the Deluge, 1865 • Swedish translation by Carl Hartman, Jorden före syndafloden, 1868, based on the 5th French edition • Vies des savants illustres de l'antiquité (Lives of the Illustrious Scholars of Antiquity), 1866 • Vies des savants illustres du Moyen âge (Lives of the Illustrious Scholars of the Middle Ages), 1867 • The Vegetable World, 1867 * • The Ocean World, 1868 • The Insect World, 1868 • Reptiles and Birds, 1869 • Vies des savants illustres du XVIIe siècle (Lives of the Illustrious Scholars of the 17th century), 1869 • Vies des savants illustres du XVIIIe siècle (Lives of the Illustrious Scholars of the 18th century), 1870 • Primitive Man, 1871 • The human race, 1872 • La Photographie, 1889 •, and. and.