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The Great Naturalists

Editat de Robert Huxley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2019
We owe a debt of gratitude to the naturalists who described, experimented, collected, and gave us the means to understand the natural world. They came from all over the globe, from classical times to the end of the nineteenth century, when natural history changed from a mainly amateur pursuit to today's specialized scientific profession.
Braving dangers--including storms, pirates, and disease--in pursuit of cataloging the natural world, pioneers such as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin changed the course of science with their groundbreaking theories. This book includes many naturalists who are well known, such as the earliest great natural historian, Aristotle; Carl Linnaeus, the man who brought order to nature; the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon; and Georges Cuvier, who established the concept of extinction. Others are now given their rightful place: Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who made his own microscopes and discovered bacteria; and Mary Anning, "the princess of paleontology," who had an amazing, self-taught talent for finding fossils.
Many of these people were great artists as well as scientists, and The Great Naturalists is illustrated with a selection of beautiful and precise paintings and drawings of birds, animals, fossils, fish, shells, and rocks from the unparalleled collections of the Natural History Museum, London.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780500294796
ISBN-10: 0500294798
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 22 Illustrations, color
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Thames & Hudson

Notă biografică

Robert Huxley is head of collections in the department of botany at the Natural History Museum, London.

Descriere

Huxley presents the story of natural history as seen through the lives, observations, and discoveries of the worlds greatest naturalists. Many of those who are described here also had been great artists, and this book is illustrated with their beautiful and precise paintings and drawings.