Philip Henry Gosse

Philip Henry GOSSE FRS (6a de Aprilo 1810 – 23a de Aŭgusto 1888), konata al siaj amikoj kiel Henry, Thwaite (2002), p. xix.  estis angla natursciencisto kaj popularigisto de natura scienco, virtuale la inventisto de la salakva akvario, kaj elstara plinovigisto en la studo de marbiologio. Gosse kreis kaj nutris la unuan publikan akvarion de la Zoo de Londono en 1853, kaj stampis la terminon "aquarium" kiam li publikigis la unuan gvidlibron, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, en 1854. Lia verko rezultis en furoro por akvarioj en la komenco de la Viktoria Anglio. Katherine C. Grier (2008) Pets in America: A History. p. 53. University of North Carolina Press

Gosse estis ankaŭ aŭtoro de Omphalos, nome klopodo por kongruigi la geologiajn epokojn supozitajn de Charles Lyell kun la biblia rakonto pri la mondokreo. Post sia morto, Gosse estis portretita kiel patro de la religiaj vidpunktoj en Father and Son (1907), nome memorlibro verkita de lia filo, Edmund Gosse, poeto kaj kritikisto. Estas tri portretoj de Gosse en la National Portrait Gallery.

 Verkoj 
 The Canadian Naturalist: a series of conversations on the natural history of Lower Canada (1840).
 An Introduction to Zoology (1844).
 The Ocean (1844), en 1874 The Wonders of the Great Deep; or, the physical, animal, geological and vegetable curiosities of the ocean.
 The Birds of Jamaica (1847)
 The Monuments of Ancient Egypt, and their relation to the Word of God (1847).
 Natural History. Mammalia (1848).
 Popular British Ornithology; containing a familiar and technical description of the Birds of the British Isles (1849).
 Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica (1849).
 Natural History. Birds (1849).
 Sacred streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible (1850).
 Natural History. Reptiles (1850).
 A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica (1851).
 Natural History. Fishes (1851).
 The History of the Jews, from the Christian era to the dawn of the Reformation (1851).
 A Text-book of Zoology for schools (1851).
 Assyria: her manners and customs, arts and aims. Restored from the monuments (1852).
 A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast (1853).
 The Aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea (1854).
 Natural History. Mollusca (1854).
 A Handbook to the Marine Aquarium: containing Instructions for constructing, stocking, and maintaining a tank, and for collecting plants and animals (1855).
 Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles (1855–1856).
 Tenby: a seaside holiday (1856).
 A Memorial of the Last Days on Earth of Emily Gosse (1857)
 Omphalos: an attempt to untie the geological knot (1857), modernaj eldonoj en 1998 kaj 2003.
 Life in its Lower, Intermediate, and Higher Forms; or, manifestations of the divine wisdom in the natural history of animals (1857).
 Actinologia Britannica: a history of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals. (1858–60).
 Evenings at the Microscope: or, researches among the minute organs and forms of animal life (1859).
 Letters from Alabama, chiefly relating to Natural History (1859).
 The Romance of Natural History (1860–61).
 A Year at the Shore (1865).
 Land and Sea (1865)
 The Revelation. How is it to be interpreted ? (1866).
 Imperial Bible-Dictionary (104 artikoloj) (1866)
 The Mysteries of God: a series of expositions of Holy Scripture (1884).

 Notoj 

 Bibliografio 
 Gosse, Edmund (1890). Naturalist of the Sea Shore, The Life of Philip Henry Gosse. London: William Heinemann.
 Thwaite, Ann (2002). Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse, 1810-1888. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-19328-8.
 L. R. Croft, "Gosse, Philip Henry (1810–1888)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
 Douglas Wertheimer, "Gosse, Philip Henry," Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
 Edmund Gosse, Father and Son (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907); Oxford World Classics edition, 2004.

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