- Bib ID:
- 4963056
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London : Thames & Hudson in association with the Natural History Museum, 2007
- 304 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
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- Summary:
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Traces the story of natural history as reflected by the lives, observations, and discoveries of some of the world's leading naturalists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Aristotle.
- Full contents:
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- Unity in diversity
- THE ANCIENTS
- Aristotle
- Theophrastus
- Pedanios Dioscorides
- Pliny the Elder
- THE RENAISSANCE
- Leonhart Fuchs
- Ulisse Aldrovandi
- Andrea Cesalpino
- Pierre Belon
- Konrad Gessner
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- Nicolaus Steno
- John Ray
- Robert Hooke
- Antonu van Leeuwenhoek
- Sir Hans Sloane
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Mark Catesby
- Carl Linnaeus
- Comte de Buffon
- Georg Steller
- Michel Adanson
- Erasmus Darwin
- William Bartram
- Joseph Banks
- Johann Christian Fabricius
- James Hutton
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
- Georges Cuvier
- THE 19TH CENTURY
- William Smith
- Alexander von Humboldt
- John James Audubon
- William Buckland
- Charles Lyell
- Mary Anning
- Richard Owen
- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
- Charles Darwin
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Asa Gray.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 294-299.
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