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Buffons Natural History Vol 5 Of 10
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Download or read book Buffon written by Jacques Roger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Buffon's Natural History. Volume X (of 10) by : Georges Buffon
Download or read book Buffon's Natural History. Volume X (of 10) written by Georges Buffon and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buffon's Natural History by : Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon
Download or read book Buffon's Natural History written by Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Buffon's Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Author :Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon Publisher :Rizzoli International Publications ISBN 13 :9780847830916 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (39 download)
Book Synopsis All the World's Birds by : Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Download or read book All the World's Birds written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Audubon, there was Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, g�n�rale et particuli�re, originally published in thirty-six volumes between 1749 and 1778. All the World’s Birds comprises selections from the original, which explored all flora and fauna, and features the beautiful full color illustrations by Fran�ois-Nicolas Martinet. Now this seminal work appears in a handsome, slipcased edition which marks the first publication of Buffon’s writings in one volume with Martinet’s beautiful yet scientifically precise engravings, originally published separately. These wondrous eighteenth century depictions of birds are among the earliest scientific attempts to depict birds in all their detail, and these plates are a milestone in the development of ornithological art. This monumental volume is perfect for any bird lover.
Book Synopsis The Epochs of Nature by : Georges-Louis Leclerc
Download or read book The Epochs of Nature written by Georges-Louis Leclerc and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching from the Earth’s origins to its foreseen end, and though Buffon was limited by the scientific knowledge of his era—the substance of the Earth was not, as he asserts, dragged out of the sun by a giant comet, nor is the sun’s heat generated by tidal forces—many of his deductions appear today as startling insights. And yet, The Epochs of Nature has never before been available in its entirety in English—until now. In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level—and he even touches on age-old mysteries like why the sun shines. In one of many moments of striking scientific prescience, Buffon details evidence for species extinction a generation before Cuvier’s more famous assertion of the phenomenon. His seventh and final epoch does nothing less than offer the first geological glimpse of the idea that humans are altering the very foundations of the Earth—an idea of remarkable resonance as we debate the designation of another epoch: the Anthropocene. Also featuring Buffon’s extensive “Notes Justificatives,” in which he offers further evidence to support his assertions (and discusses vanished monstrous North American beasts—what we know as mastodons—as well as the potential existence of human giants), plus an enlightening introduction by editor and translator Jan Zalasiewicz and historians of science Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald, this extraordinary new translation revives Buffon’s quite literally groundbreaking work for a new age.
Book Synopsis Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose by : Lee Alan Dugatkin
Download or read book Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose written by Lee Alan Dugatkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon
Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Book Synopsis The London Catalogue of Books with Their Sizes, Prices and Publishers Containing the Books Published in London Since the Year 1814 to 1839 by : [Anonymus AC09764988]
Download or read book The London Catalogue of Books with Their Sizes, Prices and Publishers Containing the Books Published in London Since the Year 1814 to 1839 written by [Anonymus AC09764988] and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Publishers' circular and booksellers' record written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Publishers' Circular by : Sampson Low
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of man by : Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Download or read book History of man written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Empire of Extinction by : Ryan Tucker Jones
Download or read book Empire of Extinction written by Ryan Tucker Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean, establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to Europe and China. In the process they radically transformed the North Pacific, causing environmental catastrophe. In one of the most hotly-contested imperial arenas of the day, the Russian empire organized a host of Siberian and Alaskan native peoples to rapaciously hunt for fur seals, sea otters, and other fur-bearing animals. The animals declined precipitously, and Steller's sea cow went extinct. This destruction captured the attention of natural historians who for the first time began to recognize the threat of species extinction. These experts drew upon Enlightenment and Romantic-era ideas about nature and imperialism but their ideas were refracted through Russian scientific culture and influenced by the region's unique ecology. Cosmopolitan scientific networks ensured the spread of their ideas throughout Europe. Heeding the advice of these scientific experts, Russian colonial governors began long-term management of marine mammal stocks and instituted some of the colonial world's most forward-thinking conservationist policies. Highlighting the importance of the North Pacific in Russian imperial and global environmental history, Empire of Extinction focuses on the development of ideas about the natural world in a crucial location far from what has been considered the center of progressive environmental attitudes.
Download or read book The Oölogist written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lucretius and Modernity by : Jacques Lezra
Download or read book Lucretius and Modernity written by Jacques Lezra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the Roman poet's De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) rediscovery by Poggio Bracciolini, and of its reception in early modernity, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Despite the poem's newfound influence and visibility, very little cross-disciplinary conversation has taken place. This edited collection brings together essays by distinguished scholars to examine the relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Key questions weave this book's ideas and arguments together: What is the relation between literary form and philosophical argument? How does the text of De rerum natura allow itself to be used, at different historical moments and to different ends? What counts as reason for Lucretius? Together, these essays present a nuanced, skeptical, passionate, historically sensitive, and complicated account of what is at stake when we claim Lucretius for modernity.
