{"history":[],"article":{"id":"46f07c13-5a7b-4603-93d3-f403da16c99d","title":"Louis Figuier","slug":"louis-figuier","content":":::summary\n:::\n\n# \n**Louis Figuier** (15 February 1819 in [Montpellier](https://bliptext.com/articles/montpellier) – 8 November 1894 in [9th arrondissement of Paris](https://bliptext.com/articles/9th-arrondissement-of-paris)) was a French scientist and writer.\nHe was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of [chemistry](https://bliptext.com/articles/chemistry) at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier.\nLouis Figuier was married to French writer [Louise Juliette Bouscaren](https://bliptext.com/articles/juliette-figuier).\n# [Louis Figuier | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Louis///Figuier.jpg]\n# [Figuier in a photograph by Nadar | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Louis///Figuier02.jpg]\n\n# Career\nFiguier became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of [pharmacology](https://bliptext.com/articles/pharmacology), chemistry (1844–1853) and [physics](https://bliptext.com/articles/physics) and gained his PhD in (1850).\nFiguier was appointed professor at L'Ecole de Pharmacie of Paris after leaving Montpellier.\nIn his research he found himself opposed to [Claude Bernard](https://bliptext.com/articles/claude-bernard); as a result of this conflict, he abandoned his research to devote himself to popular science.\nHe 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).\nHe 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](https://bliptext.com/articles/douard-riou), La Terre et les mers (1864), Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1891).\nHe 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.\nInfluenced by [Charles Lyell](https://bliptext.com/articles/charles-lyell)'s [Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man](https://bliptext.com/articles/geological-evidences-of-the-antiquity-of-man) of 1863, the 1867 second edition of La Terre avant le déluge abandoned the [Garden of Eden](https://bliptext.com/articles/garden-of-eden) shown in the first edition, and included dramatic illustrations of savage men and women wearing animal skins and wielding stone axes.\n\n# Main works\n

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\n\n# [Illustration from La Terre avant le déluge | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Terre///avant///deluge.jpg]\n\n# Footnotes","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-25T22:03:04.764Z","updated_at":"2025-01-25T22:03:04.764Z","search_vector":"'figuier':2 'loui':1","search_content":" \n \n\n# \n**Louis Figuier** (15 February 1819 in [Montpellier](https://bliptext.com/articles/montpellier) – 8 November 1894 in [9th arrondissement of Paris](https://bliptext.com/articles/9th-arrondissement-of-paris)) was a French scientist and writer.\nHe was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of [chemistry](https://bliptext.com/articles/chemistry) at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier.\nLouis Figuier was married to French writer [Louise Juliette Bouscaren](https://bliptext.com/articles/juliette-figuier).\n# [Louis Figuier | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Louis///Figuier.jpg]\n# [Figuier in a photograph by Nadar | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Louis///Figuier02.jpg]\n\n# Career\nFiguier became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of [pharmacology](https://bliptext.com/articles/pharmacology), chemistry (1844–1853) and [physics](https://bliptext.com/articles/physics) and gained his PhD in (1850).\nFiguier was appointed professor at L'Ecole de Pharmacie of Paris after leaving Montpellier.\nIn his research he found himself opposed to [Claude Bernard](https://bliptext.com/articles/claude-bernard); as a result of this conflict, he abandoned his research to devote himself to popular science.\nHe 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).\nHe 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](https://bliptext.com/articles/douard-riou), La Terre et les mers (1864), Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1891).\nHe 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.\nInfluenced by [Charles Lyell](https://bliptext.com/articles/charles-lyell)'s [Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man](https://bliptext.com/articles/geological-evidences-of-the-antiquity-of-man) of 1863, the 1867 second edition of La Terre avant le déluge abandoned the [Garden of Eden](https://bliptext.com/articles/garden-of-eden) shown in the first edition, and included dramatic illustrations of savage men and women wearing animal skins and wielding stone axes.\n\n# Main works\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nand . \n \n \n \n \n \n# [Illustration from La Terre avant le déluge | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Terre///avant///deluge.jpg]\n\n# Footnotes","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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