Author: William Henry FlowerPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Essays on Museums and Other Subjects Connected with Natural History, by Sir William Henry Flower
Author: William Henry FlowerPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology
Author: Charl WatertonEssays on Natural History
Author: Charles WatertonPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
Author: Stephen Jay GouldPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061632
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820326364
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how these writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin; his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape writing--to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist--all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.
God and Nature
Author: David C. LindbergPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520908031
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Since the publication in 1896 of Andrew Dickson White's classic History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, no comprehensive history of the subject has appeared in the English language. Although many twentieth-century historians have written on the relationship between Christianity and science, and in the process have called into question many of White's conclusions, the image of warfare lingers in the public mind. To provide an up-to-date alternative, based on the best available scholarship and written in nontechnical language, the editors of this volume have assembled an international group of distinguished historians. In eighteen essays prepared especially for this book, these authors cover the period from the early Christian church to the twentieth century, offering fresh appraisals of such encounters as the trial of Galileo, the formulation of the Newtonian worldview, the coming of Darwinism, and the ongoing controversies over "scientific creationism." They explore not only the impact of religion on science, but also the influence of science and religion. This landmark volume promises not only to silence the persistent rumors of war between Christianity and science, but also serve as the point of departure for new explorations of their relationship, Scholars and general readers alike will find it provocative and readable.
An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents
Author: Charles OwenPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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I Have Landed
Author: Stephen Jay GouldPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.
Essays on Natural History
Author: Charles WatertonPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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