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Louis Agassiz   /lˈuɪs əgˈæsɪz/   Listen
Louis Agassiz

noun
1.
United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873).  Synonyms: Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz.






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"Louis Agassiz" Quotes from Famous Books



... cavities in the rock formed by cascades in the glaciers, shows me I don't understand their structure at all. I wish out of pure curiosity I could make it out. (499/1. "Etudes sur les Glaciers," by Louis Agassiz, 1840, contains a description of cascades (page 343), and "des cavites ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... England, it is humiliating to human nature to remember the annoyances, and even trials, to which the pettiest and narrowest of men subjected such Christian scholars in our own country as Benjamin Silliman and Edward Hitchcock and Louis Agassiz. ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... definition of the species. The word has no ABSOLUTE meaning whatever, but is only a group-name, or category of classification, with a purely relative value. In 1857, it is true, a famous and gifted, but inaccurate and dogmatic, scientist, Louis Agassiz, attempted to give an absolute value to these "categories of classification." He did this in his Essay on Classification, in which he turns upside down the phenomena of organic nature, and, instead of tracing them to their natural causes, examines them through a ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel

... American science, two names stand out with peculiar lustre—John James Audubon and Louis Agassiz. Neither was, strictly speaking, American, for Agassiz was born in Switzerland and did not come to this country until he was nearly forty years of age; while Audubon was born in French territory, the son of ...
— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson



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