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xxiii, 368 pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, frontispiece ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibiliographical references (pages 349-358) and an index. |
| Contents |
Schoolmen and herbalists -- The lens turned on life -- Science at court -Buffon and Réaumur -- The green world opens -- The life work of Linnaeus -- Glories and follies of the Linnaean age -- A chevalier in science: Lamarck -- Anatomist against dreamer: Cuvier and Lamarck -- Wilderness plantsmen: Bartram and Michaux -- Wilderness birdsmen: Wilson and Audubon -- Frontier Utopians: Say, Rafinesque, and others -- Rose spectacles: Goethe and the romanticists -- Ultimate isles: Darwin and Wallace -- Darwinism and the man behind it -- Fabre and the epic commonplace. |
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Naturalists.
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Naturalists -- Biography.
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Naturalists. (OCoLC)fst01034543
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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