Louis Agassiz
Noun
Meaning
United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
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A daguerrotype of Renty, a man enslaved on a South Carolina plantation, taken in 1850 by J.T. Zealy for scientist Louis Agassiz.
It is a common name for the oldest living line of Sarcopterygii, citation referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839.
The history of these images begins in the early 19 century with the Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz.
This theory and Louis Agassiz work in particular became center to many “scientific” explanations of white supremacy and was often used as a justification for the supposed moral righteousness of the practice of slavery.
In addition, Louis Agassiz of Switzerland established his reputation through the study of freshwater fishes and the first comprehensive treatment of paleoichthyology, Poissons Fossiles.