Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300073591)

This is the first published biography of the remarkable Joseph Leidy (1823-91), a scientist of astonishing achievement and breadth of interests. A man who seemed to know everything, Leidy was-among many other things-the foremost human anatomist of his time, the first truly productive microscopist, the father of American protozoology and parasitology, and the founder of American invertebrate paleontology.

Author: Leonard Warren
ISBN-10: 0300073593
ISBN-13: 9780300073591
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/11/1998
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.39w x 0.97d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/05/1998 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/1998 pg. 1445
Library Journal 11/01/1998