1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001806660403321

Autore

Capecchi, Ilvo

Titolo

Dalla fattoria "Monna Giovannella" al Centro Agricolo Sperimentale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze / Ilvo Capecchi ; Accademia Economico-Agraria dei Georgofili

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : Accademia Economico-Agraria dei Georgofili, 1987

Descrizione fisica

98 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

630.9

Locazione

FAGBC

Collocazione

60 630.9 CAPI 1987

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Suppl. a: Rivista di storia dell'agricoltura, 27(1987), n. 2



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815308103321

Autore

Parrish Susan Scott

Titolo

American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

979-88-908792-1-9

0-8078-5678-9

1-4696-0095-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

508/.0973

Soggetti

Natural history - United States - History

Science - Social aspects - United States - History

Intercultural communication - United States - History

Imperialism - History

United States Ethnic relations

United States Intellectual life

Great Britain Intellectual life

Great Britain Colonies America

United States Relations Great Britain

Great Britain Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar



letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts -- Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral -- Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote -- African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge.