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"Though met with mixed responses from scientists and naturalists across the centuries, believing the world around them was to be purely 'known' and not read, books on natural history have also come to incite passion and excitement in so many of their readers, and illustrations a…
"Though met with mixed responses from scientists and naturalists across the centuries, believing the world around them was to be purely 'known' and not read, books on natural history have also come to incite passion and excitement in so many of their readers, and illustrations a…
"There is a secret world within New York City, a universe of creatures great and small living side-by-side with the Big Apple's Homo sapiens. The five boroughs sit atop one of the most naturally rich sites in North America, directly under the Atlantic migratory flyway, at the mo…
Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants, animals, and the landscape. Deep Things o…
Examining the scientific activities and contributions of the members of the Charleston's circle of naturalists, this text pays attention to the problems faced by the group and the ways in which their religious and racial beliefs interacted with and shaped their scientific pursui…
"In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. This book examines the scientific activities and contributions of six Charleston naturalists: John Bachman, Edmund Ravenel, John Edwards Holbr…
Wie viel zweite Natur steckt in Bildung und wie viel Bildung steckt in zweiter Natur? Die Frage nach der Naturgeschichte von Bildung stellt sich in einer ambivalenten Situation. Einerseits hat sich die Verfügung über innere und äußere Natur zur zweiten Natur entwickelt, anderers…
Field notes on science & nature
by Wilson, Edward O., Heinrich, Bernd, Kingdon, Jonathan, Kramer, Karen, Schaller, George B., Patton, James L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., ("Kay"), Naskrecki, Piotr, Kaufman, Kenn, Kitching, R. L., (Roger Laurence), Keller, Jenny, Reveal, James L., Perrine, John D., Greene, Erick
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Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, this book allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
Science, God, and nature in Victorian Canada
by Berger, Carl
fromThe Joanne Goodman Lectures
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Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form. They built up their stocks of papers…
"Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form. They built up their stocks of paper…