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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
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Zoology, Europe & America
Author: Zoology, Europe & America
Author: A Reprint of [his] North American Zoology ...
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Author: George OrdA New World of Animals
Author: Miguel de AsúaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351962140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of animals in the network of economic interests driving the early expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of Early Modern European imagination and learning.
On the Zoology of Ancient Europe
Author: Alfred NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology
Author: The Great and Small Game of Europe, Western & Northern Asia and America
Author: Richard LydekkerPublisher:
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Category : Big game animals
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society
Author: New York Zoological SocietyPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
List of members in each report.
Guide to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Author: London Zoo (London, England)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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