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All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / / Robert E. Kohler
All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / / Robert E. Kohler
Autore Kohler Robert E
Edizione [Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Princeton University Press, , [2006]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina 508
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Biological specimens - Collectors and collecting - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4008-4971-3
Classificazione TB 2380
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Nature -- CHAPTER TWO Culture -- CHAPTER THREE Patrons -- CHAPTER FOUR. Expedition -- CHAPTER FIVE. Work -- CHAPTER SIX. Knowledge -- CHAPTER SEVEN Envoi -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910453606503321
Kohler Robert E  
New York : , : Princeton University Press, , [2006]
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All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / / Robert E. Kohler
All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / / Robert E. Kohler
Autore Kohler Robert E
Edizione [Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Princeton University Press, , [2006]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina 508
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Biological specimens - Collectors and collecting - History
ISBN 1-4008-4971-3
Classificazione TB 2380
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Nature -- CHAPTER TWO Culture -- CHAPTER THREE Patrons -- CHAPTER FOUR. Expedition -- CHAPTER FIVE. Work -- CHAPTER SIX. Knowledge -- CHAPTER SEVEN Envoi -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910790628903321
Kohler Robert E  
New York : , : Princeton University Press, , [2006]
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All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / / Robert E. Kohler
All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / / Robert E. Kohler
Autore Kohler Robert E
Edizione [Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Princeton University Press, , [2006]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina 508
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Biological specimens - Collectors and collecting - History
ISBN 1-4008-4971-3
Classificazione TB 2380
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Nature -- CHAPTER TWO Culture -- CHAPTER THREE Patrons -- CHAPTER FOUR. Expedition -- CHAPTER FIVE. Work -- CHAPTER SIX. Knowledge -- CHAPTER SEVEN Envoi -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910818187603321
Kohler Robert E  
New York : , : Princeton University Press, , [2006]
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All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / Robert E. Kohler
All creatures : naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950 / Robert E. Kohler
Autore Kohler, Robert E.
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : Princeton University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica xiii, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Disciplina 578.7
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Biological specimens - Collectors and collecting - History
ISBN 0691125392
Classificazione LC QH15.K64
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991002317379707536
Kohler, Robert E.  
New York : Princeton University Press, 2006
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Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson
Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson
Autore Anderson John G. T. <1957->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (363 p.)
Disciplina 508
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Naturalists - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-86037-6
0-520-95445-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Adam'S Task, Job'S Challenge -- 1. From Hunter-Gatherers To Kings Of Kings -- 2. A Wonderful Man: Aristotle And Greek Natural History -- 3. The Spoils Of An Empire -- 4. An Emperor And His Descendants -- 5. New Worlds -- 6. Ray, Linnaeus, And The Ordering Of The World -- 7. Journeys Near And Far -- 8. Before The Origin -- 9. Forms Most Beautiful: Darwin -- 10. The Geography Of Nature: Humboldt -- 11. Hearts Of Light: Wallace And Bates -- 12. Spoils Of Other Empires -- 13. Breadfruit And Icebergs -- 14. Naturalists In New England: Thoreau, Agassiz, And Gray -- 15. From Muir And Alexander To Leopold And Carson -- 16. The Slow Death (And Resurrection) Of Natural History -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910452712103321
Anderson John G. T. <1957->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
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Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson
Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson
Autore Anderson John G. T. <1957->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (363 p.)
Disciplina 508
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Naturalists - History
Soggetto non controllato academic books
ancient history
anthropology
astrobiology and bioscience
beginning of study
books for history lovers
creation of life
darwin
development of sciences
discussion books
engaging
environmental change
environmental conservation protection
history of science
home school history books
human civilization
human history
informative books
learning from experts
natural history
nonfiction books
philosophers
quarantine reads
science and math
science books
scientists
start of civilization
ISBN 1-283-86037-6
0-520-95445-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Adam'S Task, Job'S Challenge -- 1. From Hunter-Gatherers To Kings Of Kings -- 2. A Wonderful Man: Aristotle And Greek Natural History -- 3. The Spoils Of An Empire -- 4. An Emperor And His Descendants -- 5. New Worlds -- 6. Ray, Linnaeus, And The Ordering Of The World -- 7. Journeys Near And Far -- 8. Before The Origin -- 9. Forms Most Beautiful: Darwin -- 10. The Geography Of Nature: Humboldt -- 11. Hearts Of Light: Wallace And Bates -- 12. Spoils Of Other Empires -- 13. Breadfruit And Icebergs -- 14. Naturalists In New England: Thoreau, Agassiz, And Gray -- 15. From Muir And Alexander To Leopold And Carson -- 16. The Slow Death (And Resurrection) Of Natural History -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910779362403321
Anderson John G. T. <1957->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
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Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson
Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson
Autore Anderson John G. T. <1957->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (363 p.)
Disciplina 508
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Naturalists - History
Soggetto non controllato academic books
ancient history
anthropology
astrobiology and bioscience
beginning of study
books for history lovers
creation of life
darwin
development of sciences
discussion books
engaging
environmental change
environmental conservation protection
history of science
home school history books
human civilization
human history
informative books
learning from experts
natural history
nonfiction books
philosophers
quarantine reads
science and math
science books
scientists
start of civilization
ISBN 1-283-86037-6
0-520-95445-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Adam'S Task, Job'S Challenge -- 1. From Hunter-Gatherers To Kings Of Kings -- 2. A Wonderful Man: Aristotle And Greek Natural History -- 3. The Spoils Of An Empire -- 4. An Emperor And His Descendants -- 5. New Worlds -- 6. Ray, Linnaeus, And The Ordering Of The World -- 7. Journeys Near And Far -- 8. Before The Origin -- 9. Forms Most Beautiful: Darwin -- 10. The Geography Of Nature: Humboldt -- 11. Hearts Of Light: Wallace And Bates -- 12. Spoils Of Other Empires -- 13. Breadfruit And Icebergs -- 14. Naturalists In New England: Thoreau, Agassiz, And Gray -- 15. From Muir And Alexander To Leopold And Carson -- 16. The Slow Death (And Resurrection) Of Natural History -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910808113103321
Anderson John G. T. <1957->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
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From natural history to the history of nature : readings from Buffon and his critics / / edited, translated, and with introductions by John Lyon and Phillip R. Sloan
From natural history to the history of nature : readings from Buffon and his critics / / edited, translated, and with introductions by John Lyon and Phillip R. Sloan
Pubbl/distr/stampa Notre Dame, Indiana ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , 1981
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 500
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Naturalists - France
Soggetto non controllato Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De, 1707-1788
Natural History
Science
ISBN 0-268-15975-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910136610103321
Notre Dame, Indiana ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , 1981
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Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / / edited by Arthur MacGregor
Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / / edited by Arthur MacGregor
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (1,039 pages)
Disciplina 508
Altri autori (Persone) MacGregorArthur <1941->
Collana Emergence of natural history
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Naturalists - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 90-04-32384-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction / Arthur MacGregor -- 2 New World and other Exotic Animals in the Italian Renaissance: the Menageries of Lorenzo Il Magnifico and his Son, Pope Leo X / Marco Masseti -- 3 The Emperor’s Exotic and New World Animals: Hans Khevenhüller and Habsburg Menageries in Vienna and Prague / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend -- 4 “Judge by experience and by learninge”: the Fieldwork of William Turner (c.1508-1568) / Marie Addyman -- 5 On Northern Shores: Sixteenth-Century Observations of Fish and Seabirds (North Sea and North Atlantic) / Florike Egmond -- 6 Collecting and Preserving Fishes: a Historical Perspective / Peter Davis -- 7 Into the Wild: Botanical Fieldwork in the Sixteenth Century / Florike Egmond -- 8 “Take with you a small Spudd or Trowell”: James Petiver’s Directions for Collecting Natural Curiosities / Charles E. Jarvis -- 9 Linnaean Scholars Out of Doors: So Much to Name, Learn and Profit From / Hanna Hodacs -- 10 “Devilish fellows who test patience to the very limit”: Naturalists in the Pacific in the Age of Cook / Glyn Williams -- 11 Catesby’s Birds / Shepard Krech III -- 12 The Hudson’s Bay Company and its Collectors / C. Stuart Houston -- 13 European Enlightenment in India: an Episode of Anglo-German Collaboration in the Natural Sciences on the Coromandel Coast, Late 1700s–Early 1800s / Arthur MacGregor -- 14 Eight Ways to Catch a Seal: Fieldwork in Siberia in the Age of Enlightenment / Han F. Vermeulen -- 15 Face to Face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit Collections and Their Uses / Felix Driver -- 16 More Than One Way to Skin a Wombat: the How and Why of Collecting in the South Seas / Robert Huxley -- 17 William Burchell in Southern Africa, 1811-1815 / Malgosia Nowak-Kemp -- 18 Snapshots of Tropical Diversity: Collecting Plants in Colonial and Imperial Brazil / Stephen A. Harris -- 19 From Tubs to Flying Boats: Episodes in Transporting Living Plants / E. Charles Nelson -- 20 Faunal Collecting, Inventorying and Systematizing in the Marine Environment: a Historical, Mostly British, Perspective / P.G. Moore -- 21 Gathering Spirals: on the Naturalist and Shell Collector Hugh Cuming / Helen Scales -- 22 Bat-Fowlers, Pooters and Cyanide Jars: a Historical Overview of Insect Collecting and Preservation / Peter C. Barnard -- 23 Nets, Labels and Boards: Materiality and Natural History Practices in Continental European Manuals on Insect Collecting 1688-1776 / Dominik Hünniger -- 24 Collecting Abroad, Preserving at Home: Titian Ramsay Peale Ii, American Entomologist and Collector / Robert McCracken Peck -- 25 John Russell Malloch: Amateur Naturalist to Professional Taxonomist / E. Geoffrey Hancock -- 26 Reflections on Some Practical Aspects of Collecting During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Pat Morris -- 27 Following the Lure: Field Experience and Professional Opportunities in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century American Vertebrate Paleontology / Paul D. Brinkman -- 28 Evolving Contexts of Collecting: the Australian Experience / A.M. Lucas -- 29 Virtual Collecting: Camera-Trapping and the Assembly of Population Data in Twenty-First-Century Biology / Sarah Elmeligi , Ian Convery , Volker Deecke and Owen Nevin -- 30 The Psychology of Finding and Recognizing Wildlife / Mark Lawley -- Appendices: Some Key Texts in the History of Field Collecting / Arthur MacGregor -- Index / Arthur MacGregor.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910493714803321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / / edited by Arthur MacGregor
Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / / edited by Arthur MacGregor
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (1,039 pages)
Disciplina 508
Altri autori (Persone) MacGregorArthur <1941->
Collana Emergence of natural history
Soggetto topico Natural history - History
Naturalists - History
ISBN 90-04-32384-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction / Arthur MacGregor -- 2 New World and other Exotic Animals in the Italian Renaissance: the Menageries of Lorenzo Il Magnifico and his Son, Pope Leo X / Marco Masseti -- 3 The Emperor’s Exotic and New World Animals: Hans Khevenhüller and Habsburg Menageries in Vienna and Prague / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend -- 4 “Judge by experience and by learninge”: the Fieldwork of William Turner (c.1508-1568) / Marie Addyman -- 5 On Northern Shores: Sixteenth-Century Observations of Fish and Seabirds (North Sea and North Atlantic) / Florike Egmond -- 6 Collecting and Preserving Fishes: a Historical Perspective / Peter Davis -- 7 Into the Wild: Botanical Fieldwork in the Sixteenth Century / Florike Egmond -- 8 “Take with you a small Spudd or Trowell”: James Petiver’s Directions for Collecting Natural Curiosities / Charles E. Jarvis -- 9 Linnaean Scholars Out of Doors: So Much to Name, Learn and Profit From / Hanna Hodacs -- 10 “Devilish fellows who test patience to the very limit”: Naturalists in the Pacific in the Age of Cook / Glyn Williams -- 11 Catesby’s Birds / Shepard Krech III -- 12 The Hudson’s Bay Company and its Collectors / C. Stuart Houston -- 13 European Enlightenment in India: an Episode of Anglo-German Collaboration in the Natural Sciences on the Coromandel Coast, Late 1700s–Early 1800s / Arthur MacGregor -- 14 Eight Ways to Catch a Seal: Fieldwork in Siberia in the Age of Enlightenment / Han F. Vermeulen -- 15 Face to Face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit Collections and Their Uses / Felix Driver -- 16 More Than One Way to Skin a Wombat: the How and Why of Collecting in the South Seas / Robert Huxley -- 17 William Burchell in Southern Africa, 1811-1815 / Malgosia Nowak-Kemp -- 18 Snapshots of Tropical Diversity: Collecting Plants in Colonial and Imperial Brazil / Stephen A. Harris -- 19 From Tubs to Flying Boats: Episodes in Transporting Living Plants / E. Charles Nelson -- 20 Faunal Collecting, Inventorying and Systematizing in the Marine Environment: a Historical, Mostly British, Perspective / P.G. Moore -- 21 Gathering Spirals: on the Naturalist and Shell Collector Hugh Cuming / Helen Scales -- 22 Bat-Fowlers, Pooters and Cyanide Jars: a Historical Overview of Insect Collecting and Preservation / Peter C. Barnard -- 23 Nets, Labels and Boards: Materiality and Natural History Practices in Continental European Manuals on Insect Collecting 1688-1776 / Dominik Hünniger -- 24 Collecting Abroad, Preserving at Home: Titian Ramsay Peale Ii, American Entomologist and Collector / Robert McCracken Peck -- 25 John Russell Malloch: Amateur Naturalist to Professional Taxonomist / E. Geoffrey Hancock -- 26 Reflections on Some Practical Aspects of Collecting During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Pat Morris -- 27 Following the Lure: Field Experience and Professional Opportunities in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century American Vertebrate Paleontology / Paul D. Brinkman -- 28 Evolving Contexts of Collecting: the Australian Experience / A.M. Lucas -- 29 Virtual Collecting: Camera-Trapping and the Assembly of Population Data in Twenty-First-Century Biology / Sarah Elmeligi , Ian Convery , Volker Deecke and Owen Nevin -- 30 The Psychology of Finding and Recognizing Wildlife / Mark Lawley -- Appendices: Some Key Texts in the History of Field Collecting / Arthur MacGregor -- Index / Arthur MacGregor.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910796899803321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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