Sightseers and Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History
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Sightseers and Scholars provides portraits of the explorers and naturalists who sought to explore the New World in the pre-Darwinian Age. The late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and America saw the dawn of a golden age of science in which society energetically sought to quantify, categorize, and rationally explain the world. The accurate cataloguing of nature was one of the goals of the age, and most plants and animals known today were collected,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1552634868
ISBN13:9781552634868
Release Date:September 2002
Publisher:Key Porter Books
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
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