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FLOURENS, Marie Jean Pierre (1794-1867). Recherches exprimentales sur les proprits et les fonctions du systme nerveux, dans les animaux vertbrs. Paris: Lachevardire for Crevot, 1824.
8o (199 x 125 mm). Half-title. (Slight dust soiling to upper margins, occasional light foxing.) Contemporary quarter sheep, spine gilt lettered. Provenance: Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), Swiss botanist (presentation inscription on half-title, " M. Decandolle Hommage de respect et de reconnaissance. L'auteur").
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Flourens' most important work. "Flourens' was one of the giants in the production of basic experimental neurological research for which the nineteenth century was so notable in France... Flourens correctly separated in general terms the functions of the cerebrum, medulla, and particularly elucidated the functions of the cerebellum" (Heirs of Hippocrates).
An evocative and important presentation copy, from one pioneer of the analysis of organic function in living creatures to another. De Candolle had known Flourens since his youth and decisively influenced his career: it was thanks to a letter of recommendation from the famous botanist that Flourens met his future mentor Georges Cuvier, who first presented Flourens' work to the Acadmie des Sciences, earning him instant "notoriety and recognition among scientists" (DSB), and who was instrumental in the younger man's early appointments to the Collge de France and the Acadmie des Sciences. Garrison-Morton 1493; Heirs of Hippocrates 1513; Wellcome III, p. 34; Norman 806.
8o (199 x 125 mm). Half-title. (Slight dust soiling to upper margins, occasional light foxing.) Contemporary quarter sheep, spine gilt lettered. Provenance: Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), Swiss botanist (presentation inscription on half-title, " M. Decandolle Hommage de respect et de reconnaissance. L'auteur").
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of Flourens' most important work. "Flourens' was one of the giants in the production of basic experimental neurological research for which the nineteenth century was so notable in France... Flourens correctly separated in general terms the functions of the cerebrum, medulla, and particularly elucidated the functions of the cerebellum" (Heirs of Hippocrates).
An evocative and important presentation copy, from one pioneer of the analysis of organic function in living creatures to another. De Candolle had known Flourens since his youth and decisively influenced his career: it was thanks to a letter of recommendation from the famous botanist that Flourens met his future mentor Georges Cuvier, who first presented Flourens' work to the Acadmie des Sciences, earning him instant "notoriety and recognition among scientists" (DSB), and who was instrumental in the younger man's early appointments to the Collge de France and the Acadmie des Sciences. Garrison-Morton 1493; Heirs of Hippocrates 1513; Wellcome III, p. 34; Norman 806.
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Please note that the correct Norman number for this lot is 805, not 806 as stated in the catalogue.