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The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline: 17601850
Paul . Ed(S): Farber
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Paperback. Editor(s): Farber, Paul. Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GB; HB; WM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 343.
A number of years ago I began a project to derme and evaluate the impact of Buffon's Histoire naturelle on the science of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. My attention, however, was soon diverted by the striking difference between the highly literary natural history of Buffon and the duller, but more rigor ous, zoology of his successors, and I began to try to understand this transformation of natural history into a set of separate scientific disciplines (geology, botany, ornithology, entomology, ichthyology, etc. ). Historical literature on the emergence of the biological sciences in the early nineteenth century is, ... Read more
A number of years ago I began a project to derme and evaluate the impact of Buffon's Histoire naturelle on the science of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. My attention, however, was soon diverted by the striking difference between the highly literary natural history of Buffon and the duller, but more rigor ous, zoology of his successors, and I began to try to understand this transformation of natural history into a set of separate scientific disciplines (geology, botany, ornithology, entomology, ichthyology, etc. ). Historical literature on the emergence of the biological sciences in the early nineteenth century is, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Series
Studies in the History of Modern Science
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400978218
SKU
V9789400978218
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