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Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Mary Terrall
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Hardcover. Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people - diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. This book reveals how eighteenth-century natural historians incorporated various experimental techniques. Num Pages: 264 pages, 46 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JF; PDX; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people - diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety of people around the globe, with practitioners sharing neither methods nor training, it has been characterized as a science of straightforward description, devoted to amassing observations as the raw material for classification and thus fundamentally distinct from experimental physical science. In Catching Nature in the Act, Mary Terrall revises this picture, revealing how eighteenth-century natural historians ... Read more
Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people - diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety of people around the globe, with practitioners sharing neither methods nor training, it has been characterized as a science of straightforward description, devoted to amassing observations as the raw material for classification and thus fundamentally distinct from experimental physical science. In Catching Nature in the Act, Mary Terrall revises this picture, revealing how eighteenth-century natural historians ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
551g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226088600
SKU
V9780226088600
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About Mary Terrall
Mary Terrall is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment, also published by the University of Chicago Press. She lives in Altadena, CA.
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