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Georges Cuvier, « Introduction », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10.4000/books.mnhn.6259
Georges CuvierPortrait by Antoine Chazal (1793-1854), for the illustration of Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles... (1816-1830).Cliché Bibliothèque centrale, MNHN Natural history is a science of facts, and the number of facts it embraces is so great that no one person can gather or verify the totality that make up even one of its branches. Therefore natural history cannot be studied fruitfully except by consulting all the authors who have dealt with it and by comparing the evidence brought ...