LEADER 04577nam 22007935 450 001 9910495350803321 005 20240214110616.0 010 $a3-030-74859-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-74859-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011995117 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-74859-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6690164 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6690164 035 $a(PPN)257354549 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011995117 100 $a20210804d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRobert Brown and Mungo Park $eTravels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society /$fby Joel Schwartz 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 212 p. 39 illus., 32 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aMemoirs of The New York Botanical Garden,$x2662-2858 ;$v122 311 $a3-030-74858-8 327 $aPreface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Collecting, Observing, and Describing the Natural World -- Scientific Ferment in late Eighteenth Century Edinburgh -- Scientific Exploration During Voyages of Discovery -- ... the plants of Scotland might be equally useful -- Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa -- A good practical Botanist -- So remote a country as New Holland -- The Crew labouring under the Same disorder -- Mungo Park's Last Journey -- A Tedious and Uncomfortable Passage -- Prodrommus, Florae Novae Hollndiae -- Banks's Librarian -- Taking leave of Sir Joseph Banks -- Pollen Grains of Clarkis pulchella -- Epilogue: The greatest of Banksian botanist-librarians -- Bibliography. 330 $aExplorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work is a fresh examination of the lives and careers of Brown and Park and their impact on natural history and exploration. Brown and Park were part of a group of intrepid naturalists who brought back some of the flora and fauna they encountered, drawings of what they observed, and most importantly, their ideas. The educated public back home was able to gain an understanding of the diversity in nature. This eventually led to the development of new ways of regarding the natural world and the eventual development of a coherent theory of organic evolution. This book considers these naturalists, Brown, Park, and their contemporaries, from the perspective of the Scottish Enlightenment. Brown?s investigations in natural history created a fertile environment for breakthroughs in taxonomy, cytology, and eventually evolution. Brown?s pioneering work in plant taxonomy allowed biologists to look at the animal and plant kingdoms differently. Park?s adventures stimulated significant discoveries in exploration. Brown and Park?s adventures formed a bridge to such journeys as Charles Darwin?s voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, which led to a revolution in biology and full explication of the theory of evolution. 410 0$aMemoirs of The New York Botanical Garden,$x2662-2858 ;$v122 606 $aBioinformatics 606 $aPlant anatomy 606 $aPlants$xEvolution 606 $aPlant ecology 606 $aPlant physiology 606 $aPlants$xReproduction 606 $aComputational and Systems Biology 606 $aPlant Anatomy and Morphology 606 $aPlant Evolution 606 $aPlant Ecology 606 $aPlant Physiology 606 $aPlant Reproduction 606 $aNaturalistes$2thub 606 $aExpedicions científiques$2thub 607 $aGran Bretanya$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aBioinformatics. 615 0$aPlant anatomy. 615 0$aPlants$xEvolution. 615 0$aPlant ecology. 615 0$aPlant physiology. 615 0$aPlants$xReproduction. 615 14$aComputational and Systems Biology. 615 24$aPlant Anatomy and Morphology. 615 24$aPlant Evolution. 615 24$aPlant Ecology. 615 24$aPlant Physiology. 615 24$aPlant Reproduction. 615 7$aNaturalistes 615 7$aExpedicions científiques 676 $a508.092 700 $aSchwartz$b Joel S.$f1940-$01222257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495350803321 996 $aRobert Brown and Mungo Park$92834349 997 $aUNINA