EDWARDS, William Frédéric (1776 – 1842)
1776 – 1842
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1824 CE
#145.56
De l’influence des agens physiques sur la vie.
Edwards studied the influence of environmental factors on animal life, concluding that vital processes depend on external physical and chemical forces but are not entirely controlled by them. The work includes an acco…
1829 CE
#10716
Des caractères physiologiques des races humaines considérés dans leurs rapports avec l’histoire; lettre à M. Amédée Thierry . . .
A physiologist and anthropologist, Edwards established the subject of ethnology in France and pioneered the concept of “race” as determined by the shape of the face and head. He has been called the first a…
1832 CE
#12197
On the influence of physical agents on life, by W. F. Edwards. Translated from the French by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher. To which are added, in the appendix, some observations on electricity by Dr. Edwards, M. Pouillet, and Luke Howard; on absorption, and the uses of the spleen, by Dr. Hodgkin; on the microscopic characters of the animal tissues and fluids, by J. J. Lister and Dr. Hodgkin, and some notes to the work of Dr. Edwards.
EDWARDS, William Frédéric (1776 – 1842)
HODGKIN, Thomas (1798 – 1866) LISTER, Joseph Jackson (1786 – 1869)
HOWARD, Luke (1772 – 1864)
POUILLET, Claude Servais Mathias (1790 – 1868) FISHER, Alder
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