Author: George MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A dictionary of British birds giving classification and a detailed account of each species. With 28 beautifully detailed wood-cut illustrations.
Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds
Author: George MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A dictionary of British birds giving classification and a detailed account of each species. With 28 beautifully detailed wood-cut illustrations.
British Birds
Author: A List of Books Relating to British Birds, Published Before the Year 1815, from the Library of W.H. Mullens ... Exhibited at the Corporation Museum, Hastings, During June 1906. Reprinted with Additions and Corrections
Author: William Herbert MullensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
Author: James A. JoblingPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408133261
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
A Bibliography of British Ornithology from the Earliest Times to the End of 1912
Author: William Herbert MullensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds
Author: George 1751-1815 MontaguPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019770252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This illustrated dictionary provides detailed descriptions of British birds and their habits. It includes information on the birds' physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats. The book is intended for bird watchers, ornithologists, and anyone interested in British wildlife. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline: 1760–1850
Author: Paul FarberPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400978197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A number of years ago I began a project to derme and evaluate the impact of Buffon's Histoire naturelle on the science of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. My attention, however, was soon diverted by the striking difference between the highly literary natural history of Buffon and the duller, but more rigor ous, zoology of his successors, and I began to try to understand this transformation of natural history into a set of separate scientific disciplines (geology, botany, ornithology, entomology, ichthyology, etc. ). Historical literature on the emergence of the biological sciences in the early nineteenth century is, unfortunately, scant. ! Indeed the entire issue of the emergence of scientific disciplines in general is poorly documented. A recent collection of articles on the subject states: One reason for this is, of course, that scientific development is a highly com plex process. Consequently, there has been a tendency for those engaged in its empirical study to select for close attention one strand or a small number of strands from the complicated web of social and intellectual factors at work. Many historians, for example, have dealt primarily with the internal development of scientific knowledge within given fields of inquiry. Sociologists, in contrast, have tended to concentrate on the social processes associated with the activities of scientists; but at the same time 2 they have largely ignored the intellectual content of science.
Mrs Moreau's Warbler
Author: Stephen MossPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 178335092X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them? The words we use to name birds are some of the most lyrical and evocative in the English language. They also tell incredible stories: of epic expeditions, fierce battles between rival ornithologists, momentous historical events and touching romantic gestures. Through fascinating encounters with birds, and the rich cast of characters who came up with their names, in Mrs Moreau's Warbler Stephen Moss takes us on a remarkable journey through time. From when humans and birds first shared the earth to our fraught present-day coexistence, Moss shows how these names reveal as much about ourselves and our relationship with the natural world as about the creatures they describe.
Author: Arthur Aikin
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