Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida

Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a famous and influential Swiss geologist and paleontologist, who studied medicine in Heidelberg and Munich. During this time, his study on fishes interested Georges Cuvier, who invited him to Paris to study his own fish collection. Herewith, he acquired a catastrophist...

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Autores principales: Hervé, Francisco, Charrier, Reynaldo
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 2020
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Glaciers, Erratic boulders, Fossil fish, Catastrophism, Creationism.
Glaciares, Bloques erráticos, Peces fósiles, Creacionismo, Catastrofismo.
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/FCEFyN/article/view/28650
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spelling I10-R375-article-286502020-08-07T20:03:25Z Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida Hervé, Francisco Charrier, Reynaldo Glaciers, Erratic boulders, Fossil fish, Catastrophism, Creationism. Glaciares, Bloques erráticos, Peces fósiles, Creacionismo, Catastrofismo. Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a famous and influential Swiss geologist and paleontologist, who studied medicine in Heidelberg and Munich. During this time, his study on fishes interested Georges Cuvier, who invited him to Paris to study his own fish collection. Herewith, he acquired a catastrophist and creationist perspective on the development of life, as opposed to the evolutionary theory of Darwin (Juárez Barrera et al., 2016). He then worked at the University of Genève, in Switzerland, from where he acquired world-wide reputation with his books on glaciers in 1840 and 1847, in which he interpreted the presence of erratic boulders in the pre-alpine lowlands as transported by glaciers that in the geological past were more extended than at present. He even visualized the Earth fully covered by ice, a snowball earth condition, which was reconsidered during the last part of the XX century. In 1846, he moved to Harvard as zoology and geology professor, and he became one of the main scientific personalities of the US, by his qualities as a researcher, and mainly, as a communicator of science. He participated in the creation of the Academy of Sciences and of the Compared Anatomy Museum at Harvard. He was the last great scientist who denied Darwin´s theory of evolution, and held firmly to the catastrophist / creationist perspective, which led him into considerations about human races that brought him discredit. Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) fue un famoso e influyente geólogo y paleontólogo suizo, que posteriormente se estableció en la Universidad de Harvard, Massachusets, USA. Durante sus estudios universitarios en Heidelberg y Múnich, Agassiz realizó un estudio sobre peces, que interesó a Georges Cuvier, quien le dirigió un estudio sobre peces fósiles durante la estadía de Agassiz en París.  Con ello adquirió una visión catastrofista y creacionista de la historia de la Tierra, que lo acompañó toda su vida, durante la cual se opuso a las ideas evolucionistas de Darwin (Juárez Barrera et al., 2016). Trabajó durante 13 años en la Universidad de Ginebra en Suiza, durante los cuales se hizo famoso mundialmente por sus libros acerca de los glaciares en 1840 y 1847, en los que interpretó la presencia de bloques erráticos en las llanuras de Europa como evidencias de la pasada existencia de glaciares mucho más extensos que en la actualidad. Incluso concibió a toda la superficie de la Tierra cubierta por glaciares, imagen retomada como la de “snowball earth” de fines del siglo XX.  En 1846, se trasladó como profesor de geología y zoología a la Universidad de Harvard, donde se convirtió en una de las principales figuras científicas de Estados Unidos, por sus cualidades de investigador y, sobre todo, de profesor y divulgador de la ciencia.  Participó en la creación de la Academia de Ciencias de ese país y del Museo de Anatomía Comparada de la universidad.  Fue el último gran científico que tuvo una concepción creacionista de la historia geológica y que negara totalmente la teoría de la evolución de Darwin, lo que lo llevó a consideraciones sobre las razas humanas que le causaron descrédito. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 2020-08-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/FCEFyN/article/view/28650 Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Vol. 7: Suplemento 1; 41-47 2362-2539 0373-9686 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/FCEFyN/article/view/28650/30436 Derechos de autor 2020 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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topic Glaciers, Erratic boulders, Fossil fish, Catastrophism, Creationism.
Glaciares, Bloques erráticos, Peces fósiles, Creacionismo, Catastrofismo.
spellingShingle Glaciers, Erratic boulders, Fossil fish, Catastrophism, Creationism.
Glaciares, Bloques erráticos, Peces fósiles, Creacionismo, Catastrofismo.
Hervé, Francisco
Charrier, Reynaldo
Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida
topic_facet Glaciers, Erratic boulders, Fossil fish, Catastrophism, Creationism.
Glaciares, Bloques erráticos, Peces fósiles, Creacionismo, Catastrofismo.
author Hervé, Francisco
Charrier, Reynaldo
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Charrier, Reynaldo
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title Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida
title_short Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida
title_full Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida
title_fullStr Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida
title_full_unstemmed Louis Agassiz en Chile y Argentina: Una historia poco conocida
title_sort louis agassiz en chile y argentina: una historia poco conocida
description Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a famous and influential Swiss geologist and paleontologist, who studied medicine in Heidelberg and Munich. During this time, his study on fishes interested Georges Cuvier, who invited him to Paris to study his own fish collection. Herewith, he acquired a catastrophist and creationist perspective on the development of life, as opposed to the evolutionary theory of Darwin (Juárez Barrera et al., 2016). He then worked at the University of Genève, in Switzerland, from where he acquired world-wide reputation with his books on glaciers in 1840 and 1847, in which he interpreted the presence of erratic boulders in the pre-alpine lowlands as transported by glaciers that in the geological past were more extended than at present. He even visualized the Earth fully covered by ice, a snowball earth condition, which was reconsidered during the last part of the XX century. In 1846, he moved to Harvard as zoology and geology professor, and he became one of the main scientific personalities of the US, by his qualities as a researcher, and mainly, as a communicator of science. He participated in the creation of the Academy of Sciences and of the Compared Anatomy Museum at Harvard. He was the last great scientist who denied Darwin´s theory of evolution, and held firmly to the catastrophist / creationist perspective, which led him into considerations about human races that brought him discredit.
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