Linnaeus in Italy
Author : Marco Beretta
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Marco Beretta
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Richard Pulteney
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1805
Category : Biology
ISBN :
Author : Lisbet Koerner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674039696
Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koerner tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time Linnaeus' grand and bizarre economic projects: to teach tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals. Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his family home by growing cash crops in Northern Europe. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his time. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Meticulously researched, and based on archival data, Linnaeus will be of compelling interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science. But this engaging, often funny, and sometimes tragic portrait of a great man will be valued by general readers as well.
Author : Daniel C. Carr
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Botanists
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Author : Carl von Linné
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 1844
Category :
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Author : Lars Hansen
Publisher : The IK Foundation & Company
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : 9781904145240
During the 18th century the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus inspired 17 of his scholars to travel to the far corners of the earth to document local nature and culture. Their travels covered all the continents, and they came to be known as the Linnaeus Apostles. Some of their journals have now been made available for the first time.
Author : Carl von Linné
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Science
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Author : Göran Rothman
Publisher : The IK Foundation & Company
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : 9781904145219
During the 18th century the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus inspired 17 of his scholars to travel to the far corners of the earth to document local nature and culture. Their travels covered all the continents, and they came to be known as the Linnaeus Apostles. Some of their journals have now been made available for the first time.
Author : Mark Thurner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1000814505
The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than ‘follow in Humboldt’s footsteps,’ this book outlines the new critical horizon of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron’s epistemological footprint. Contrary to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary ‘adventurer’ and ‘hero of science’ surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron’s opus and practice was largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge and practice, in truth Humboldt did not ‘invent nature,’ nor did he pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering, ‘postcolonial’ cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and, in most ways, were less enlightened than those of his Creole contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and the global history of science and knowledge.
Author : Carl von Linné
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198569343
The eighteenth-century botanist Carl von Linné, more commonly known as Linnaeus, was the inventor of the binary nomenclature now standard in biology. His Philosophia Botanica represents a key stage in the evolution of the scientific classification and naming of plants, and is a classic in the history of science and botany. Amazingly, no complete translation into English has been undertaken since 1775 prior to this edition.