Theodore W. Pietsch is Professor Emeritus in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Curator Emeritus of Fishes at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is author of more than 200 scientific and popular articles, including more than a dozen books, that focus primarily on marine ichthyology, especially the biosystematics, distribution, reproductive biology, and behavior of teleost fishes. Prominent among these are "Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea," published by the University of California Press in 2009; "Fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca," with co-author James Wilder Orr, published by the University of Washington Press in June 2019; and "Frogfishes: Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavorial Ecology," published by Johns Hopkins University Press in March 2020.Pietsch has also published extensively on the history of science. Among the latter are works on the French comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier and his 22-volume "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons" (1828−1849); bookdealer, publisher, and secret agent Louis Renard and his "Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs"; the unpublished manuscripts of the French explorer-naturalist Charles Plumier; and the unpublished paintings of Indo-west Pacific marine fishes and crustaceans of Isaac Johannes Lamotius. His first novel, "The Curious Death of Peter Artedi: A Mystery in the History of Science," was published by Scott & Nix, New York, in spring 2010. Volume one of Cuvier's "History of the Natural Sciences: Twenty-four Lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance," and "Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution" were published in spring 2012. Volume two of Cuvier's "History of the Natural Sciences: Nineteen Lessons from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" was published in June 2015; and volume three, "Twenty Lessons from the First Half of the Eighteenth Century," appeared in July 2018. The remaining two volumes of the latter series are currently in preparation.Read more about this authorRead less about this author