The Journals of Gilbert White: 1751-1773
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
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Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
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Author : Gilbert White
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Birds
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Author : Gilbert White
Publisher :
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1931
Category :
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Author : Gilbert White
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Natural history
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Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1971-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262600033
Excerpts from the journals of naturalist Gilbert White (1720-1793).
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 9780712612944
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher :
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1931
Category :
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Author : Ted Dadswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1351882104
Gilbert White's name is known universally but, as Ted Dadswell insists in this book, important aspects of his work have frequently been overlooked even by scholarly editors. The Selborne naturalist (1720-1793) has been described as 'a prince of personal observers'; but a shrewd analytical questioning and comparing was also typical of his 'natural knowledge'. Exceptional even in his general aims, White studied the behaviour, the 'manners' and 'conversation', of his animals and plants. He saw, moreover, that an animal or plant and indeed a parish such as his own, was unitary in operation; again and again, a cause had numerous effects and an effect numerous causes. Observation could go forward in circumstances such as these, if one was both sharp-eyed and patient, but how could true investigation be managed? How could a particular cause or effect be isolated or tested? Here what Dadswell calls White's 'comparative habit' was put to good use. Gilbert White was a careful keeper of records, and using these comparatively he 'appealed to controls' while examining his living creatures. Questioning and testing even the 'entirely usual', White was brought back repeatedly to the notion of adaptability. His zoological findings often concerned 'changed or changing' animals (or birds) and their social and inter-personal relationships. Today, we can seem particularly well placed to appreciate his methods and factual claims; our 'ethologists' and ecologists have - seemingly - corroborated much of what he did. And yet just this corroboration renders him the more mysterious. To properly assess White as naturalist, we must be able to approach him not only scientifically but also historically. He hoped for the emergence of teams of behavioural workers but did not try to pre-empt what would be achieved only by such teams, and while he 'saw with his own eyes', as his friend John Mulso says, he was substantially affected by certain of his contemporaries and predecessors. His journals and notebooks show us the naturalist at work. When a perhaps unexpected combination of influences is allowed for, his 'unique' activities can be at least partially explained.
Author : Gilbert White (Naturwissenschafter, Grossbritannien)
Publisher :
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Natural history
ISBN :