Birds, Beasts, and Men ; a Humanist History of Zoology, by H.R Hays
Author: Hoffman Reynolds Hays
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 383
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Author: Hoffman Reynolds Hays
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 383
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 383
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hoffman Reynolds Hays
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780140216974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander Humboldt
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-05-25
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0141961023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the 'new continent'. The first to draw and speculate on Aztec art, to observe reverse polarity in magnetism and to discover why America is called America, his writings profoundly influenced the course of Victorian culture, causing Darwin to reflect: 'He alone gives any notion of the feelings which are raised in the mind on first entering the Tropics'.
Author: Victoria Dickenson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780802080738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated archeology of the imagination that reveals how artists and writers from the late 16th to the early 19th century, most of whom had never seen North America, portrayed the natural history and landscape of North America to European readers.
Author: Carl C. Gaither
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 2800
ISBN-13: 1461411130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unprecedented collection of 27,000 quotations is the most comprehensive and carefully researched of its kind, covering all fields of science and mathematics. With this vast compendium you can readily conceptualize and embrace the written images of scientists, laymen, politicians, novelists, playwrights, and poets about humankind's scientific achievements. Approximately 9000 high-quality entries have been added to this new edition to provide a rich selection of quotations for the student, the educator, and the scientist who would like to introduce a presentation with a relevant quotation that provides perspective and historical background on his subject. Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Second Edition, provides the finest reference source of science quotations for all audiences. The new edition adds greater depth to the number of quotations in the various thematic arrangements and also provides new thematic categories.
Author: Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 842
ISBN-13: 1101908076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new hardcover selection of the best writings of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world. Selected and introduced by Andrea Wulf. Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing volcanoes in the Andes, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his time, he recognized nature as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone else that humankind was on a path to destroy it. His visits to the Americas led him to argue that the indigenous peoples possessed ancient cultures with sophisticated languages, architecture, and art, and his expedition to Cuba prompted him to denounce slavery as “the greatest evil ever to have afflicted humanity.” To Humboldt, the melody of his prose was as important as its empirical content, and this selection from his most famous works—including Cosmos, Views of Nature, and Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, among others—allows us the pleasure of reading his own accounts of his daring explorations. Humboldt’s writings profoundly influenced naturalists and poets including Darwin, Thoreau, Muir, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Whitman. The Selected Writings is not only a tribute to Humboldt’s important role in environmental history and science, but also to his ability to fashion powerfully poetic narratives out of scientific observations.
Author: Carl F. Klinck
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1976-12-15
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1487590997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work. It has already proven itself invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It represents a positive attempt to give a history of Canada in terms of writings which deserve attention because of significant thought, form, and use of language. Volume 3 has been newly written for this edition of the History, and covers the years from about 1960 to 1974. The contributors to this volume are Claude Bissell, Desmond Pacey, Lauriat Lane, jr, Michael S. Cross, Thomas A. Goudge, John Webster Grant, John H. Chapman, William E. Swinton, Henry B. Mayo, Malcolm Ross, Brandon Conron, Clara Thomas, Sheila A. Egoff, John Ripley, William H. New, George Woodcock, and Northrop Frye.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1786
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lisa Yount
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1438109172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles more than 150 scientists from around the world who made important contributions to the field of biology, including Claude Bernard, Alexander Fleming, Mary-Claire King, Ronald Ross, and Tetsuko Takabe.