Author : Willem Piso
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1483285251
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim
Author : Peter Walmsley
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780838755433
This book shows how, in his enormously influential 'Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natrual philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He also shows how the 'Essay' embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical taxonomy to developments in embryology and the history of trades. The result is a new reading of Locke, one that shows both his brilliance as a writer and his originality in turning to science to effect a radical reinvention of the study of the mind.
Author : Julian P. Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472937465
A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.
Author : David Freedberg
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362014
Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
Author : New York. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1919
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Edward Lewis Sturtevant
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Botany
ISBN :
Plants, edible -- dictionaries -- biographies of Edward Lewis Sturtevant: p.1-11.
Author : Mariana Françozo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1000867587
This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropology, botany, linguistics, literature, book history, medieval and early modern history, and art history. The chapters contextualize the treatise vis-à-vis its predecessors and contemporaneous works of natural history and examine its botanical, zoological, and linguistic accuracy and usefulness in the present day. Put together, the seven chapters of this volume present a kaleidoscope of possibilities of how to re-interpret Piso and Marcgraf’s work within the dynamic context of knowledge-production about the ‘New’ World in the early modern era, while also suggesting approaches to continue profiting from its subject matter in the present day. Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil offers essential reading on the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, natural history and Latin American history. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Kees Rookmaaker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 891 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004691545
The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new maps showing the extent of their occurrences. Thousands of sources varied in time and nature are used to study the interactions between man and rhinoceros. The text is supported by over 700 illustrations and 38 maps showing the importance of the rhinoceros in the scientific and cultural fabric of Asia and beyond.
Author : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Medical libraries
ISBN :
Author : Ashley Clements
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019285609X
From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other Classical Animals demonstrates how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment.
