The Naturalist in Britain
A Social History
At once a major resource for historians of science and an excellent introduction to natural history for the general reader, David Allen's The Naturalist in Britain established a precedent for investigating natural history as a social phenomenon. Here the author traces the evolution of natural history from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the herbalizings of apprentice apothecaries to the establishment of national reserves and international societies to the emergence of natural history as an organized discipline. Along the way he describes the role of scientific ideas, popular fashion, religious motivations, literary infl…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-4344-2
- EAN: 9781400843442
- Produktnummer: 36465063
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 11 halftones
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