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Henri Fabre (1823-1915) is a famous French scientist and popular science writer. Born in a peasant family, living in extreme poverty since childhood, as a secondary school teacher, * amateur self-study, spend twelve years of time, successively obtained a bachelor's degree, double bachelor's degree and doctoral degree, secondary school teaching more than twenty years of conscientiousness, while amateur observation and research of insects and plants, published a very good paper, Darwin's affirmation of the Ministry of Education of the empire to reward him, but he wanted to "on the university podium" dream always However, his dream of "reaching the university podium" was never realized, and his wish to open an independent entomology laboratory was never supported. In the first half of his life, he was penniless, and in the second half of his life, he barely had enough to eat, but Fabre did not give in to "prejudice" and "poverty". He was still diligent in self-study, expanding the knowledge base, carefully set the direction of research, unremitting observation and experimentation, and constantly obtain new results, time and again to fight back against "prejudice". He taught students new knowledge of natural science, but also offended a lot of physiological function to explain the instincts of biological peers, he was not afraid of people accusing themselves of not with the "three major discoveries of the nineteenth century in natural science" in the cell theory and evolution to keep in line with the theory, he is almost in the forgetting of everything. Faber's greatest interest in his life lies in exploring the true nature of the world of life and discovering the scientific truth contained in nature. Precisely because he loved the truth so he wrote "Insects", consistently "accurately describe the facts observed, neither add anything, nor ignore anything". Faber dedicated himself to this great cause of revealing and grasping "truth - truth". This became his life's highest ideals and noble labor, for which he was happy and comforted. He brought together all his qualities and talents in this spirit and made his unique contribution to humanity.
Fabre was the first scientist to study insects in the natural environment, and he spent his whole life going deep into the insect world, observing and experimenting with insects in the natural environment, and truly recording the instincts and habits of insects, and then he wrote "The Book of Insects", a masterpiece of entomology. Fabre's heart is full of love and care for life and praise for all natural things, he looked at the nature of insects with human nature, the instincts, habits, labor, marriage, reproduction and death of insects are permeated with humanistic care; and the nature of the insects to reflect on the social life, the wise philosophical thoughts on the paper. In his simple writing, a serious academic work is like a beautiful prose, from which people can not only gain knowledge and ideas, but reading itself is a unique aesthetic process.
The Book of Insects is not only steeped in reverence for life, but also contains a certain spirit. That spirit is truth-seeking, that is, the pursuit of truth, the search for truth. This is the spirit of Faber. Without that spirit, there would be no Insects, and a fruit of wisdom would be missing from the tree of human spirit.
Fabre wrote the book "Insects" with his skillful pen, which is famous all over the world. This masterpiece has its position in the history of French natural science and literature, and this masterpiece expresses the unspeakable and astonishing spirituality of insects in their struggle for survival. Fabre to spend his life engaged in insect research results and experience with most of the prose form of record, detailed observation of the life of insects and the struggle for life and reproduction of the race, to humanistic spirit of the natural sciences of the complexity of the evidence, the insect nature, human nature, so that the world of insects become a form of literature for humans to obtain knowledge, fun, beauty and ideas, will be the topic of the district bugs written into a multilevel meaning, He has written the topic of a small insect into a masterpiece of multi-level meaning and all-round value, which is really unprecedented in the world. There is no entomologist who possesses such a brilliant talent for literary expression, and there is no writer who possesses such profound entomological attainments. The author of The Book of Insects was known as "the creator of animal psychology" by the French and international academic circles at that time. In his later years, Fabre published the last volumes of Insecta, which not only won him a large number of readers in France, but also made him familiar with the name of the author of Insecta to a large number of readers in European countries and the world. Literature has honored him as "the Virgil of the insect world", the French academic and literary circles recommended Fabre as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Unfortunately, did not wait until the Nobel Committee determined to award him this instrument prize, the great poet of insects has died in peace.
The Book of Insects was translated and published in many languages. He was known as the "Poet of Insects", and a large number of his works have been translated and published in China.
The Book of Insects is a book written by Fabre, who spent his life observing in detail the lives of insects and their struggles for life and for the reproduction of their races, and then wrote detailed and precise notes on what he observed, and finally wrote the book. Each of the ten volumes of The Book of Insects contains a number of chapters, each of which describes in detail and in depth the life of one or more species of insects: spiders, bees, praying mantis, scorpions, cicadas, beetles, crickets, and so on.
Writer's masterpiece:
The Book of Insects is a book written by Fabre, who spent his life observing in detail the lives of insects and their struggles for life and for the reproduction of their races, and then entered his observations into detailed and precise notes, which were finally written into a book. Each of the ten volumes of The Book of Insects contains a number of chapters, each of which describes in detail and in depth the life of one or more species of insects: spiders, bees, praying mantis, scorpions, cicadas, beetles, crickets, and so on.