Philip Henry Gosse
Erfinder des Meerwasseraquariums, Popularisierer der Meeresbiologie
Philip Henry Gosse FRS, known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, in 1854. His work was the catalyst for an aquarium craze in early Victorian England. Gosse war auch der Autor von Omphalos, einem Versuch, die von Charles Lyell vorausgesetzten geologischen Zeitalter mit dem biblischen Schöpfungsbericht in Einklang zu bringen. Nach seinem Tod wurde Gosse in Vater und Sohn (1907), einer Memoire seines Sohnes, des Dichters und Kritikers Edmund Gosse, als dominierender Vater mit kompromisslosen religiösen Ansichten dargestellt.
Artworks by this artist (15 total)
- The Plumose Anemone 1856
- Actinoloba dianthus, Sagartia bellis, S troglodytes, S. rosea 1860
- Sagartia nivea, S. miniata, S.troglodytes, S. parasitica 1860
- Hormathia Margaritae, Phellia Brodricii,Peachia hastata, P. undata 1860
- Lophohelia prolifera, Peachia triphylla, Sphenotrochus Wrightii, S. Macandrewanus 1860
- Phellia gausapata, P. murocincta, Gregoria fenestrata, Bunodes coronata 1860
- The Parasitic Anemone 1856
- Actinia mesembryanthemum, A. chiococca, Sacartia chrysosplenium 1860
- The Aesop Prawn 1856
- Sagartia troglodytes, S. viduata, S. pallida, S. pura, Adamsia palliata 1860
- Corynactis viridis, Bolocera eques, Zoanthus sulcatus, Z. Alderi, Z. Couchii 1860
- The Smooth Anemone 1856
- Star Fishes 1856
- The Ancient Wrasse 1856
- Tealia crassicornis, Bunodes gemmacea, B. Ballii, B. Thallia 1860