Swedish naturalist Peter Artedi (1705–1735) has been recognized as the father of the modern science of ichthyology but his work has not received the attention it deserves until now.
This volume, Peter Artedi: Reformer of 18th Century Zoology, Vol. I: Peter Artedi’s Life and Works, is presented here in English for the first time. Far from simply a noteworthy curiosity in the history of science, Artedi’s contributions are of immense significance to ichthyology and of even greater importance to the history of the development of zoology in general.
This is the first volume of two. The second volume, Peter Artedi: Reformer of 18th Century Zoology. Volume II. Peter Artedi, Ichthyologia, Leiden 1738, will offer a complete translation into English of Artedi’s Ichthyologia, edited and published by Carl Linnaeus (to be published in 2025).
About the authors
Professor Emeritus Hans Aili (1947-), a Swedish Latinist, has published scholarly works on stylistic aspects of Classical Latin, and critical editions of the Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden and on the history of the Revelations manuscripts (Medieval Latin). In later years he concentrated on Neo-Latin as the source language of early modern science, Peter Artedi’s works being his latest major project.
Professor Emeritus Theodore W. Pietsch (1945–), an American evolutionary biologist, has spent most of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle, and conducting research primarily in marine ichthyology. He has also published extensively on the history of science.
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