Glacial polish
Date
1840
Creator
Hercule Nicolet (1801 - 1872, Swiss) , Printer
Creator - Organisation
Joseph & Edouard Bettannier, Lithographer
Object type
Library reference
24456
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 325mm
width (page): 470mm
height (plate): 230mm
width (plate): 330mm
width (page): 470mm
height (plate): 230mm
width (plate): 330mm
Subject
Description
Geological study of 5 rock specimens displaying glacial polish, a characteristic of rock surfaces where glaciers have passed over. Specimens 1and 2 are from Zermatt, 3 and 4 from the Rosenlaui glacier, and 5 from the Le Landeron municipality, Switzerland.
Inscribed below: ‘Dess. d’apres nat. et Lith par Bettannier. Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse)/ FRAGMENTS DE ROCHES POLIES./ 1.2. de Zermatt. 3.4. Rosenlaui et 5 du Landeron./ (Grandeur naturelle) [Fragments of polished rocks 1.2. from Zermatt. 3.4. Rosenlaui and 5. From Landeron. (Natural Size)]’.
Plate 18 from Louis Agassiz’s Etudes sur les glaciers: atlas de 32 planches (Neuchatel, 1840), a study of glaciers in Switzerland.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal in 1861 for his 'researches in palaeontology and other branches of science’. He also wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
Inscribed below: ‘Dess. d’apres nat. et Lith par Bettannier. Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse)/ FRAGMENTS DE ROCHES POLIES./ 1.2. de Zermatt. 3.4. Rosenlaui et 5 du Landeron./ (Grandeur naturelle) [Fragments of polished rocks 1.2. from Zermatt. 3.4. Rosenlaui and 5. From Landeron. (Natural Size)]’.
Plate 18 from Louis Agassiz’s Etudes sur les glaciers: atlas de 32 planches (Neuchatel, 1840), a study of glaciers in Switzerland.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal in 1861 for his 'researches in palaeontology and other branches of science’. He also wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
Related fellows
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807 - 1873, Swiss) , Geologist
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