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Autore: | Gianquitto Tina |
Titolo: | "Good observers of nature" [[electronic resource] ] : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 / / Tina Gianquitto |
Pubblicazione: | Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina: | 508.092/273 |
Soggetto topico: | Women naturalists - United States - History - 19th century |
Women botanists - United States - History - 19th century | |
Natural history - United States - History - 19th century | |
Nature in literature - United States - History - 19th century | |
Botany in literature - United States - History - 19th century | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-211) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction. The languages of nature : an overview -- Botany's beautiful arrangement : Almira Phelps and Enlightenment science -- The pressure of hidden causes : Margaret Fuller and Romantic science -- The noble designs of nature : Susan Fenimore Cooper, natural science, and the picturesque aesthetic -- Spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : Mary Treat and evolutionary science -- Epilogue. Human homes in nature's household : the emergence of a conservation ethic. |
Titolo autorizzato: | "Good observers of nature" |
ISBN: | 1-282-55295-3 |
9786612552953 | |
0-8203-3655-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781180003321 |
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