| Description |
xxiii, 368 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including maps), plates, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 351-358. |
| Contents |
Schoolmen and herbalists -- The lens turned on life -- Science at court : Buffon and Réaumur -- The green world opens -- The life work of Linnaeus -- Glories and follies of the Linnean age -- A chevalier in science : Lamarck -- Anatomist against dreamer : Cuvier and Lamarck -- Wilderness plantsmen : Bartram and Michaux -- Wilderness birdsmen : Wilson and Audubon -- Frontier utopians : Say, Rafinesque, and others -- Rose spectacles : Goethe and the romanticists -- Ultimate isles : Darwin and Wallace -- Darwinism and the man behind it -- Fabre and the epic commplace. |
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Naturalists.
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Naturalists. |
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Biographies as Topic. |
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Biology. |
| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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| Subject |
Botany. |
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Science. |
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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