April 12, 2024
1901 SCIENCE EVENINGS AT MICROSCOPE PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED GOSSE GIFT IDEA
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FROM 1901, this is Evenings at the Microscope by Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. Published by P.F. Collier & Son, New York. Sized 8x6 inches, bound in green cloth with gilt titles. 468 pages. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of engravings. Our scanner is adding some white lines to our images.Philip Henry Gosse FRS (6 April 1810 -- 23 August 1888), known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, in 1854. His work was the catalyst for an aquarium craze in early Victorian England.Gosse was also the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation. After his death, Gosse was portrayed as a despotic father of uncompromising religious views in Father and Son (1907), a memoir written by his son, Edmund Gosse, a poet and critic.
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