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Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Impressions of Great Naturalists written by Henry Fairfield Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Impressions of Great Naturalists written by Henry Fairfield Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. F. Osborn
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Impression of Great Naturalists written by H. F. Osborn and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Huxley
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774870
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Great Naturalists written by Robert Huxley and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of natural history as seen through the lives, observations, and discoveries of the world’s greatest naturalists. “How the sciences of geology, biology, ecology and paleontology developed over three centuries is wonderfully illuminated in this volume.” —Publishers Weekly We owe a debt of gratitude to the naturalists who described, experimented, collected, and gave us the means to understand the natural world. They came from all over the globe, from classical times to the end of the nineteenth century, when natural history changed from a mainly amateur pursuit to today’s specialized scientific profession. Braving dangers—including storms, pirates, and disease—in pursuit of cataloging the natural world, pioneers such as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin changed the course of science with their groundbreaking theories. This book includes many naturalists who are well known, such as the earliest great natural historian, Aristotle; Carl Linnaeus, the man who brought order to nature; the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon; and Georges Cuvier, who established the concept of extinction. Others are now given their rightful place: Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who made his own microscopes and discovered bacteria; and Mary Anning, “the princess of paleontology,” who had an amazing, self-taught talent for finding fossils. Many of these people were great artists as well as scientists, and The Great Naturalists is illustrated with a selection of beautiful and precise paintings and drawings of birds, animals, fossils, fish, shells, and rocks from the unparalleled collections of the Natural History Museum, London.
Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618082407
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Bonehunters' Revenge written by David Rains Wallace and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace explores in exciting detail the rivalry between the paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Onthniel Charles Marsh--19th-century America's major scientific feud. Cope and Marsh independently discovered hundreds of dinosaur fossils on the high plains when the Indian wars were in full swing.
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Total Pages : 806 pages
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Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Minnie Earl Sears
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Total Pages : 1980 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Essay and General Literature Index written by Minnie Earl Sears and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately)
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Museum of Natural History
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Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The American Museum Journal written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A.L.A. Booklist written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780761989479
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (894 download)
Download or read book The Museum in America written by Edward Porter Alexander and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the colourful histories of 13 visionary museum innovators, who transformed the 19th-century collections of curios into institutions that inform and instruct.
Author : Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299088537
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Fight to Save the Redwoods written by Susan R. Schrepfer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism—and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important—much broader than the title suggests—and so is the book."—American Historical Review
Author : J. Lee Thompson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106471
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Theodore Roosevelt Abroad written by J. Lee Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has never been given its due place. A tale of daring adventure, international celebrity, a friendship lost, and a political legacy transformed, Theodore Roosevelt Abroad is the first full account of this important time in history.
Author : Linnie Marsh Wolfe
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir written by Linnie Marsh Wolfe and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1945, this biography won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946. Its author worked for twenty-two years on John Muir, including as secretary of the John Muir Association and as editor of Muir’s unpublished papers. She interviewed many family members and people who knew and worked with John Muir to produce this account of Muir’s life. She recounts Muir’s Scottish origins, his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, his remarkable mechanical aptitude and interest in botany and geology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he spent two and a half years before traveling to the Canadian wilderness, and then to California where he spent most of his life. “[A] well-balanced, informative and rewarding biography.” — Kirkus Reviews “Into this biography of John Muir, Mrs. Wolfe has packed an amazing amount of factual information which she has illuminated with a sober critical judgment that gives us a convincing portrait of the whole man.” — Francis P. Farquhar, Pacific Historical Review “Linnie Marsh Wolfe almost singlehandedly restored John Muir to the respectability and stature he always deserved... [Son of the Wilderness] should be on the reference shelves of anyone seriously interested in American environmental history.” — John Opie, Environmental History Review “[A]n interesting personal biography... [Wolfe] creates Muir as a living personality — mystical but athletic, enthusiastic about nature but socially abrupt — a sort of middle-aged Thoreau.” — Alexander Kern, Journal of American History “By immersing herself in Muir’s life, for example, by soaking in his correspondence and journals, [Wolfe] was able to craft what amounts to a first-person narrative, the autobiography he never wrote for himself.” — Char Miller, John Muir Newsletter
Author : Gowan Dawson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300277237
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Monkey to Man written by Gowan Dawson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the “march of progress,” and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved We are all familiar with the “march of progress,” the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching. This book is the first to examine the origins and history of this ubiquitous and hugely consequential illustration. In a story spanning more than a century, from Victorian Britain to America in the Space Age, Gowan Dawson traces the interconnected histories of the two most important versions of the image: the frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863) and “The Road to Homo Sapiens,” a fold-out illustration in the best-selling book Early Man (1965). Dawson explores how the recurring appearances of this image pointed to shifting scientific and public perspectives on human evolution, as well as indicated novel artistic approaches and advancements in technology.
Author : Deborah Noyes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425289869
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by Deborah Noyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the epic rivalry between two foundational paleontologists to find bigger and better bones in the American West, perfect for readers of Steve Sheinkin and Candace Fleming. Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841 that Dino Saurs ("terrible lizards") had come and gone, it was only a theory, a new way of explaining the "dragon" and "giant" bones scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen years later, it was not only incontrovertible; it was massive. Tooth and Claw tells the story of the feverish race between two brilliant, driven, and insanely competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover more and more monstrous fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a "war" waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world.
