> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 180](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259684) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2571091) QID Q2571091 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Figuier, \[Guillaume\] Louis (1819-1894), French physician, pharmacist, naturalist and author on all aspects of natural sciences, born 15 Feb 1819 in Montpellier, Dr. en médecine 1841 Montpellier, briefly in Paris at the Sorbonne, prof., School of Pharmacy, Montpellier 1846-1853, and Dr. ès-sciences physiques 1850 Toulouse, prof., School of Pharmacy, Paris 1853, abandoned teaching for writing popular science 1856, died 8 Nov 1894 (in Paris?). **Abbreviated name**: *Figuier* #### Note Figuier was a prolific science popularizer, but some of his work, e.g. *La terre avant le deluge*... 1863, advocated a more religious than scientific interpretation of the earth's geological (and life's evolutionary) history. #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – A few letters are in the Dibner Library ([[Collection US|US]]). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 540; BM 2: 571; BN p. 173; CSP 2: 606-607, 7: 657, 14: 992; DBF 13: 1325-1326 (b. "15 Jan or Feb"); Jackson p. 51, 63; Langman p. 282; Moebius p. 375; PR ed. 1: 2898; Quenstedt p. 138; Rehder 5(index): 278; SO p. 21 (index), Tucker 3: 106. #### Biofile - Constantial, M. et al., 1993. Le Savant du foyer: Louis Figuier et la vulgarisation scientifique au XIXe siècle, Paris (Fédération française de coopération entre bibliothèques). \[Catalogue of an exhibit held 21 Sep-17 Oct 1993 in Nîmes\]. (n.v.) - Figuier, L., 1856. Exposé des titres scientifiques de M. Louis Figuier, candidat à l' Académie de medicine, Paris (Impr. de Bénard): 6 p. (n.v.) - Maire, A., 1892. Cat. Thèses Sciences soutenues en France de 1810 à 1890: 160. #### Eponymy *Figuierea* Montrouz. (1860). #### Composite works Editor, *Année Scientifique et Industrielle* (Paris) (1857-1894). ### Publications ##### n.34.454. Histoire des plantes **Title** *Histoire des plantes*... Ouvrage illustré de 415 figures dessinées d'après nature par Faguet... Paris (Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie.) 1865 \[1864?\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist*. *Pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1865 \[1864?\] (a copy was presented to the Société Botanique de France at their meeting of 9 Dec 1864, *teste* M.A. Ramond \[president\], Bull. Soc. Bot. France 11 (CRS 6): 309. Aug-Sep 1865), cover-t.p., p. \[iii\], frontisp., \[v\]-xv, \[1\]-531, \[532, colophon\], 415 figs. *Copies*: BM, BR, G, HH, NY (n.v.), U(2). *Ed. 2*: 1874, p. \[iii\], frontisp., \[v\]-xv, \[1\]-532, 416 figs. *Copies*: BR, K, LC (n.v.), US. *Note*: US copy with h.t., "Tableau de la nature, ouvrage illustrée à l'usage de la jeunesse, Histoire des Plantes". *Ed. 3*: 1880 (Nat. Nov. Apr (2) 1880), xiv, 656 p., 451 figs, – *Copies*: K, NY (n.v.). *English transl*. \[the following is only a selection of the several translations in different years by different publishers and with different numbers of figures and pages!\]: "The *vegetable world*: being a history of plants, with their botanical descriptions and peculiar properties; illustrated with 470 engravings, chiefly drawn from nature, by M. Faguet." Transl. \[edited?\] by "the notorious" Charles Ottley Green \[later Napier\] (1839-x), viii, 566 p. London (Chapman & Hall) 1866 (see rev. by Wm. Robertson in Athenaeum (London) 22 Dec 1866: 823-833); 2nd ed. in 1868. In 1872, a completely new and revised transl. appeared, by W.T.T. Dyer, because the earlier transl. was full of mistakes (see rev. by H. T\[rimen\]. in J. Bot. 10(11): 347-349, Nov 1872), vii, 588 p., London (Cassell, Petter and Galpin), known as ed. 3. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 29 Dec 1882 also mentions an edition from 1882 (Nat. Nov. (1) 1882). There is also an American edition of 1867, viii, 576 p., 470 figs., New York (D. Appleton and Co.), transl. by W.S.O.; and of 1869, as well as a new and revised edition of 1872, vii, 588 p, 473 figs, New York (D. Appleton); the last one also having an 1899 imprint. Additionally, the revised edition of 1872 is available now electronically: Ann Arbor \[Michigan\] (Univ. of Michigan Library), "Making of America Books" series, 2005. *Italian transl*.: *Storia delle piante* of 1873, with a 3rd ed. in 1882, xxix, 758 p.; and a 4th ed. in 1887, xxix, 748 p.; the 3rd and 4th eds., at least, transl. by Stefano Travella. *Polish transl*.: *Historya roślin*, 1871-1872, 3 vols. \[i.e. "greatly enlarged and in many aspects almost an independent work"\], transl. by Jakub Ignacy Waga (1800-1872), see TL-2/7: 6-7 and IH 2: 1101.