Doing it in Your Sleep
Filed in History, April 15, 2009, 8:10 pmI’ve found myself doing a fair amount of reading in the history of paleontology recently, and I’ve come across two interesting cases of paleontologists dreaming up reconstructions of their fossils. The first involves the famous Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz. While he was still in Europe working on his monumental Researches sur les poissons fossiles, he [...]