Ornithological Dictionary; Or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds. With Supplement
Author: George MONTAGU (F.L.S.)
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Published: 1831
Total Pages: 670
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Author: George MONTAGU (F.L.S.)
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Published: 1831
Total Pages: 670
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Montagu
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Published: 1802
Total Pages: 716
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Samuel Mitchell D'Urban
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 594
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 628
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Herbert Mullens
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James A. Jobling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-06-30
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1408133261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
Author: Paul Farber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9400978197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA number of years ago I began a project to derme and evaluate the impact of Buffon's Histoire naturelle on the science of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. My attention, however, was soon diverted by the striking difference between the highly literary natural history of Buffon and the duller, but more rigor ous, zoology of his successors, and I began to try to understand this transformation of natural history into a set of separate scientific disciplines (geology, botany, ornithology, entomology, ichthyology, etc. ). Historical literature on the emergence of the biological sciences in the early nineteenth century is, unfortunately, scant. ! Indeed the entire issue of the emergence of scientific disciplines in general is poorly documented. A recent collection of articles on the subject states: One reason for this is, of course, that scientific development is a highly com plex process. Consequently, there has been a tendency for those engaged in its empirical study to select for close attention one strand or a small number of strands from the complicated web of social and intellectual factors at work. Many historians, for example, have dealt primarily with the internal development of scientific knowledge within given fields of inquiry. Sociologists, in contrast, have tended to concentrate on the social processes associated with the activities of scientists; but at the same time 2 they have largely ignored the intellectual content of science.
Author: J. Anker
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-14
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9401179832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kirsten A. Greer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1469649845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power and secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season. Greer examines the lives, writings, and collections of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds simultaneously shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it. Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world.
Author: Henry George Bohn
Publisher: New York : AMS Press
Published: 1841
Total Pages: 1134
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