Deep things out of darkness : a history of natural history / John G.T. Anderson.
"Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants, animals, and the landscape. Deep Things out of Darkness...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Berkeley : University of California Press, Ã2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Adam's task, Job's challenge
- From hunter-gatherers to kings of kings
- A wonderful man : Aristotle and Greek natural history
- The spoils of an empire
- An emperor and his descendants
- New worlds
- Ray, Linnaeus, and the ordering of the world
- Journeys near and far
- Before the Origin
- Forms most beautiful : Darwin
- The geography of nature : Humboldt
- Hearts of light : Wallace and Bates
- Spoils of other empires
- Breadfruit and icebergs
- Naturalists in New England : Thoreau, Agassiz, and Gray
- From Muir and Alexander to Leopold and Carson
- The slow death (and resurrection) of natural history.