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Edward O. Wilson

Kingdom of Ants

Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World

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One of the earliest New World naturalists, Jose Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrieves Mutis's contributions from obscurity.In 1760, the 28-year-old Mutis-newly appointed as the personal physician of the Viceroy of the New Kingdom of Granada-embarked on a 48-year exploration of the natural world of northern South America. His thirst for knowledge led Mutis to study the region's flora… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-8018-9973-7
  • EAN: 9780801899737
  • Produktnummer: 35554979
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 0 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Edward O. Wilson is a two-time Pulitzer Prize¿winning author, scientist, and University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Dr. Wilson has written more than 20 books and hundreds of journal articles. José M. Gómez Durán is one of the founding members of the Iberian Myrmecological Association and a researcher with the Spanish Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (INIA).

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