Invention Timeline – Felix Archimede Pouchet; French Naturalist and Physilogist; Formulated the Fundamental Laws of Fecundation Among the Mammifera
b. August 26, 1800 and d. December 6, 1872
French naturalist and physiologist. He acquired distinction by his numerous works, and to him belongs the honor of having formulated the fundamental laws of fecundation among the mammifera. His experiments on spontaneous generation, in opposition to those of Pasteur, had great celebrity. He was the director of the Museum of Natural History at Rouen, and in 1867 published “The Universe.”
Every act of the man inscribes itself in the
memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and
face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens;
the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and
every object covered over with hints, which speak to
the intelligent.
—Representative Men: Emerson
Observe the rising Lily’s snowy grace,
Observe the various vegetable race,
They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow,
Yet see how warm they blush! how bright they glow!
What regal vestments can with them compare,
What kind so shiny, what queen so fair?
The petal, stamen, and the pistil trace
Of common blossoms and of unknown race;
The first well pleased you mark with grateful sight,
And view the last with hope’s bewitching light,
What sudden pleasure when some object rare,
Confined peculiar to one soil and air,
More precious far from expectation grown,
By some blessed turn upon the sight is thrown.
—Delille
