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Peter Artedi of Sweden, the 'Father of Ichthyology', on his death in 1735, only 30 years old, left behind one major manuscript on Ichthyology and three minor ones on Fishes and Mammals. This work attempts to bring together in two volumes all that is known about his life and works. Volume I offers a chronicle of his life and his ardent interest in the study of fishes and mammals, recounting his early upbringing his school days, his ten years at Uppsala University, his time in England, his life and work in Holland, and ending with his untimely death by drowning in an Amsterdam canal. In this volume his three smaller works are offered in Latin editions with English translations, and analysed in light of present-day knowledge. Volume II will offer an English translation of his Ichthyologia sive opera omnia de piscibus, Leiden 1738.
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