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Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Avery Publishing Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015010393869
Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0711223629
Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae (1735) brought order to all recorded knowledge about plants and animals. He invented the system of giving living organisms two Latin names. Here is a lively account of Linnaeus the man-from poor student to professor of medicine and founder of the Royal Academy of Sciences-as well as his landmark scientific achievements, such as naming 9,000 plants, 828 shells, 2,100 insects and 477 fish.
Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Naturalists
ISBN : 0711218412
This biography celebrates the man who will be remembered for ever as theather of modern plant taxonomy. This is an account of Linnaeus the man, hisdventures in the wilds of Lapland, his family life and his relations withis pupils, as well as his epoch-making scientific achievements.
Author : Wilfred Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1240797471
Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691096368
William Stearn's appendix on Linnean classification provides a concise survey of the basics necessary for understanding Linnaeus's work."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nick Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472912084
A complete practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world written by an experienced and well travelled naturalist. Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. Whether you want to understand what makes an insect and insect, rear a family of frogs for your garden pond, or record bird songs and calls, Nick can give you all the advice and information you need. Fact-packed and brimming with practical tips, techniques and activities, The Complete Naturalist offers a rich source of new ideas for more experienced naturalists, as well as sparking the natural curiosity of a whole new generation. From communicating with wild animals to setting up an aquarium, this is the naturalist's guide no family bookshelf should be without. Nick is an experienced and well-travelled naturalist, and his book includes his international experiences.
Author : Nick Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472922069
A complete practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world written by an experienced and well travelled naturalist. Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. Whether you want to understand what makes an insect and insect, rear a family of frogs for your garden pond, or record bird songs and calls, Nick can give you all the advice and information you need. Fact-packed and brimming with practical tips, techniques and activities, The Complete Naturalist offers a rich source of new ideas for more experienced naturalists, as well as sparking the natural curiosity of a whole new generation. From communicating with wild animals to setting up an aquarium, this is the naturalist's guide no family bookshelf should be without. Nick is an experienced and well-travelled naturalist, and his book includes his international experiences.
Author : Margaret J. Anderson
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766065444
How can we organize and name all of the different animals and plants in the world? Many had tried before, but Carl Linnaeus came up with a system that we still use today. This Swedish scientist from over 300 years ago is known as the father of classification. Linnaeuss system gave each plant or animal just two names. For example, the scientific term for human beings is Homo sapiens. In Latin, Homo means "man" and sapiens means "wise."
Author : Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393338713
Examines the history of taxonomy, describing the quest of scientists to name and classify living things from Carl Linnaeus to early twenty-first-century scientists who rely more on microscopic evidence than their senses, which has encouraged an indifference to nature that is responsible for the extinction of many species.
Author : Robert Huxley
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780500774878
The story of natural history as seen through the lives, observations, and discoveries of the world’s greatest naturalists. “How the sciences of geology, biology, ecology and paleontology developed over three centuries is wonderfully illuminated in this volume.” —Publishers Weekly 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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Fishing
ISBN : UCAL:B3106632
Author : Jason Roberts
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307374585
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life on Earth. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing their work to be difficult, but not impossible—how could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species? Stunned by life's diversity, both fell far short of their goal. But in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, on humanity's role in shaping the fate of our planet and on humanity itself. The rivalry between these two unique, driven individuals created reverberations that still echo today. Linnaeus, with the help of acolyte explorers he called "apostles" (only half of whom returned alive), gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate and homo sapiens—but he also denied species change and promulgated racist pseudo-science. Buffon coined the term reproduction, formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, and argued passionately against prejudice. It was a clash that, during their lifetimes, Buffon seemed to be winning. But their posthumous fates would take a very different turn. With elegant, propulsive prose grounded in more than a decade of research, featuring appearances by Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin, bestselling author Jason Roberts tells an unforgettable true-life tale of intertwined lives and enduring legacies, tracing an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.
Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300180732
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Author : Bruce Mazlish
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0300065124
Discusses the relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical and of computer robots being programmed to think. He describes early Greek and Chinese automatons and discusses ideas of previous centuries and of individuals on this subject.
Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 081353531X
Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.