Cultures of Natural History
- Editors:
- N. Jardine, University of Cambridge
- J. A. Secord, University of Cambridge
- E. C. Spary, University College London
- Date Published: January 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521558945
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This lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. Twenty-four essays, written at an accessible level, cover the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The book includes suggestions for further reading, and highlights the relevance of history for current debates on museum practice, ecological diversity, and the environment.
Read more- A lavishly illustrated compendium of recent research into the history of the history of science
- Relevant to a wide range of contemporary concerns, in history, ecology and the environment
- Includes material from the 'birth' of natural history to the nineteenth century, and many rare or unpublished illustrations
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"The 26 papers in this remarkable collection study, without jargon and very little special pleading, some of the principal liaisons contracted by natural history during the past five centuries....contains fresh, vigorous essays on the tried and true topics..." American Scientist
See more reviews"...an authoritative new book which reviews the progress of European natural history from the 16th century...to the late 19th century...represents much of the recent research and scholarship in the field of natural history...abundantly illustrated with relevant diagrams, engravings and drawings from many classical sources." The Times Higher Education Supplement
"...this book provides an excellent basis for new explorations of natural history as overlapping and changing cultures." Joy Harvey, Journal of the History of Biology
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- Date Published: January 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521558945
- length: 524 pages
- dimensions: 246 x 189 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.93kg
- contains: 136 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on contributors
Introduction:
1. The natures of cultural history Nicholas Jardine and Emma Spary
Part I. Curiosity, Erudition and Utility:
2. Emblematic natural history William B. Ashworth Jr
3. The culture of gardens Andrew Cunningham
4. Courting nature Paula Findlen
5. The culture of curiosity Katie Whitaker
6. Physicians and natural history Harold J. Cook
7. Natural history as print culture Adrian Johns
Part II. Virtuosity, Improvement and Sensibility:
8. Natural history in the academies Daniel Roche
9. Carl Linnaeus and his time and place Lisbet Koerner
10. Gender in natural history Londa Schiebinger
11. Political natural and bodily economics Emma Spary
12. The science of man Paul B. Wood
13. The natural history of the earth Martin Guntau
14. Naturphilosophie and the kingdoms of nature Nicholas Jardine
Part III. Discipline, Discovery and Display:
15. New spaces in natural history Dorinda Outram
16. Minerals strata and fossils Martin Rudwick
17. Humboldtian science Michael Dettelbach
18. Biogeography and empire Janet Browne
19. Travelling the other way Gillian Beer
20. Ethological encounters Michael T. Bravo
21. Equipment for the field Anne Larsen
22. Artisan botany Anne Secord
23. Tastes and crazes David Allen
24. Nature for the people Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Jean-Marc Drouin
25. Natural history and the 'new' biology Lynn K. Nyhart
Epilogue:
26. The crisis of nature James A. Secord.
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