| Description |
xxiii, 368 pages, 2 ℓ. frontispiece, illustrations (including maps) plates, portraits 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Sources and reference material": pages [349]-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 Linnaean 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 commonplace. |
| Subject |
Naturalists.
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