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Title

The great naturalists / edited by Robert Huxley.

Publication

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson ; London : Natural History Museum, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Huxley, Robert

Description

304 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Geschichte Anfänge-1900
• Naturalists > Biography
• Natural history > History
• Naturalists
• Natural history

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-299) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Unity in diversity -- [pt. 1]. The ancients -- Aristotle : the first philosopher-naturalist / Julia Brtittain -- Theophrastus : the father of botany / Christopher J. Humphries & David Sutton -- Pedanios Dioscorides : recording the medicinal use of plants / David Sutton -- Pliny the Elder : collector of knowledge / David Sutton -- [pt. 2]. The Renaissance -- Leonhart Fuchs : the value of illustrations / Brian W. Ogilvie -- Ulisse Aldrovandi : observation at first hand / Giuseppe Olmi -- Andrea Cesalpino : physician, philosopher and botanist / Robert Huxley & Christopher J. Humphries -- Pierre Belon : pioneer of comparative anatomy / Alan Cutler -- Konrad Gessner : the beginnings of modern zoology / Sachiko Kusukawa.
• [pt. 3]. The enlightenment -- Nicolaus Steno : unlocking the earth's geological past / Alan Cutler -- John Ray : the English Aristotle / Robert Huxley -- Robert Hooke : natural history through the microscope / Brian J. Ford -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek : the discoverer of bacteria / Brian J. Ford -- Sir Hans Sloane : the great collector / Robert Huxley -- Maria Sibylla Merian : the metamorphosis of insects / H. Walter Lack -- Mark Catesby : colonial naturalist and artist / Steve Cafferty -- Carl Linnaeus : the man who brought order to nature / Christopher J. Humphries & Robert Huxley -- Comte de Buffon : a grand theorist / Sandra Knapp -- Georg Steller : the discovery of Alaska / Robert Press -- Michel Adanson : a universal method of classification / Denis Lamy -- Erasmus Darwin : evolutionary beginnings / Robert Press -- William Bartram : scientific recorder and artist / Judith Magee -- Joseph Banks : voyager and patron of natural history / Tania Durt -- Johann Christian Fabricius : classifier of insect diversity / R.I. Vane-Wright -- James Hutton : discoverer of geological time / Jill Cook -- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck : the inheritance of acquired characteristics / Sandra Knapp -- Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu : a new method of plant classification / Denis Lamy -- Georges Cuvier : extinction and the animal kingdom / Philippe Taquet.
• [pt. 4]. The 19th century -- William Smith : the father of English geology / John L. Morton -- Alexander von Humboldt : a vision of the unity of nature / Judith Magee -- John James Audubon : artist, naturalist and adventurer / Roberta J.M. Olson -- William Buckland : first to describe a dinosaur / Jill Cook -- Charles Lyell : advocate of modern geology / Jill Cook -- Mary Anning : fossil hunter / Crispin Tickell -- Richard Owen : champion of comparative anatomy / David Williams -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz : examination, observation, comparison / David Williams -- Charles Darwin : the complete naturalist / Keith Thomson -- Alfred Russel Wallace : the problem of the origin of species / Sandra Knapp -- Asa Gray : the plants of the American Southwest / Sandra Knapp -- Contributors -- Further reading -- Sources of illustrations -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780500251393 (hbk.)
• 0500251398 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 154707175
• SCSB-10388020

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library