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Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de

BLAINVILLE, HENRI-MARIE DUCTROY DE

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BLAINVILLE, HENRI-MARIE DUCROTAY DE. - Naturalist, b. at Arques near Dieppe on 12 Sept. 1777 and d. in Paris on 1 May 1850. He was Cuvier's substitute at the Collège de France and at the Museum of Natural History. Appointed professor of anatomy and zoology in the faculty of sciences in 1812, he fought against his master's ideas. He carried out works of systematics, zoology, comparative anatomy, general physiology and paleontology. He admitted divine creation, but did not admit, as Cuvier did, repeated cataclysms, for which reason he admitted a continuity of the series of beings, suggesting the idea of a unitary creation.

Works: De l'organisation des animaux (Paris 1822); Manuel d'actionologie (ibid. 1834); Ostéographie (ibid. 1839); Histoire des sciences de l'organisation et de leurs progrès, comme base de la philosophie (ibid. 1843).

Bibliography

BIBL.: C. L. Kneller, Il cristianesimo e i naturalisti moderni, Brescia 1906, p. 548.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1714.

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Stefanelli, Alberto. “Blainville, henri-marie ductroy de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1714. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/blainville-henri-marie-ductroy-de.

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Stefanelli, Alberto. “Blainville, henri-marie ductroy de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1714. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/blainville-henri-marie-ductroy-de.

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  author    = {Stefanelli, Alberto},
  title     = {Blainville, henri-marie ductroy de},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1714},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
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