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9780500294796: The Great Naturalists
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500294798 ISBN 13: 9780500294796
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

We owe a debt of gratitude to the naturalists who described, experimented, collected, and gave us the means to understand the natural world. They came from all over the globe, from classical times to the end of the nineteenth century, when natural history changed from a mainly amateur pursuit to todays specialized scientific profession.Braving dangersincluding storms, pirates, and diseasein pursuit of cataloging the natural world, pioneers such as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin changed the course of science with their groundbreaking theories. This book includes many naturalists who are well known, such as the earliest great natural historian, Aristotle; Carl Linnaeus, the man who brought order to nature; the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon; and Georges Cuvier, who established the concept of extinction. Others are now given their rightful place: Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who made his own microscopes and discovered bacteria; and Mary Anning, the princess of paleontology, who had an amazing, self-taught talent for finding fossils.The Great Naturalists

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Robert Huxley is head of collections in the department of botany at the Natural History Museum, London.

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From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and record it. Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria with a homemade microscope and James Hutton revealed the immense age of the Earth. Mary Anning hunted fossils; others insects, birds and plants. Georges Cuvier pondered extinction, and Charles Darwin proclaimed the origin of species.

With their radical thinking and commitment to close observation, these pioneers laid foundations for the specialist scientists of today. Here thirty-nine of them are brought vividly to life by an array of experts, with illustrations from the unmatched archive of the Natural History Museum, London.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500294798
ISBN 13 
9780500294796
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Herausgeber
Huxley Robert
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