Louis Fig tree

Guillaume Louis Fig tree , born with Montpellier in 1819, died with Paris in 1894, is a writer and Vulgarisateur scientific French.

Doctor of medicine in 1841, Figuier was named, in 1846, professor at the school of pharmacy of Montpellier, then with that of Paris. It is there that he undertook a series of physiological experiments in order to show, contrary to the ideas of Claude Bernard, that the Foie has as a role, in the organization, to condense the sugar which exists in the Sang. This scientific fight turned to its disadvantage, and Fig tree gave up for always the experimentation. Already known of the scientists by many reports published of 1847 to 1854 in the Yearly of sciences , with the Newspaper of pharmacy and the Scientific magazine , Figuier was especially made popular in writings of popularized science and history. Fig tree also tried to create a new kind, the “scientific theater”, a series of parts having for hero the large inventors or the large scientists, but the public followed only fairly. In 1855, Figuier replaced Victor Meunier as writer of the scientific serial of the Press . Its articles published each week since 1856 until its death, were joined together in a volume entitled the scientific and industrial Année or annual Talk of work, etc . It is an exact inventory of the scientific productions of the year. He was also creator and editor association of Science illustrated , re-examined weekly of scientific popularization in which between-others took part Jules Verne, Louis-Henri Boussenard and Camille Flammarion.

List partial of the publications

  • Exposure and history of the principal modern scientific discoveries (1851-1858)
  • Alchemy and the Alchemists (1854)
  • Great old and modern Inventions (1861)
  • the Scientist of the hearth (1862)
  • '' Earth before the flood '' (1862)
  • Earth and the Seas (1863)
  • History of the plants (1864)
  • Life and Manners of the animals (1865)
  • Life of the famous scientists, since antiquity until the XIXe century (1865)
  • History of marvellous in modern times (1859-1862)
  • Wonders of science in 6 volumes (1867-1869)
  • Table of nature (1862-1871)
  • the Shortly after dead or future Life according to science (1871)
  • the primitive Man (1873)
  • Wonders of industry (1873-1876)
  • the Six parts of the world, part in five acts (1878)
  • Scenes and tables of nature (1879)
  • the Airships (1881)
  • Denis Papin , drama in five acts (1882)
  • the New Conquests of science (1883-1885)
  • Know yourself , concepts of physiology (1878)
  • Gutenberg , part historical (1886)
  • the Mysteries of science (1887)

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