Philip Henry Gosse

1810 - 1888 English

Philip Henry Gosse

Inventò l'acquario marino, diffuse la biologia marina

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 fu anche l'autore di Omphalos, un tentativo di conciliare le ere geologiche presupposte da Charles Lyell con il racconto biblico della creazione. Dopo la sua morte, Gosse fu ritratto come un padre autoritario dalle opinioni religiose intransigenti in Padre e figlio (1907), un memoriale scritto da suo figlio, Edmund Gosse, poeta e critico.

Artworks by this artist (15 total)