Naturalists in the field: collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century
Interposed between the natural world in all its diversity and the edited form in which we encounter it in literature, imagery and the museum, lie the multiple practices of the naturalists in selecting, recording and preserving the specimens from which our world view is to be reconstituted. The facto...
| Published in: | Emergence of natural history |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2018]
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| In: |
Emergence of natural history (Volume 2)
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| Series/Journal: | Emergence of natural history
Volume 2 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Biology
/ Scientific expedition
/ Field-research
/ Botanisieren
/ Animals
/ Preparation
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Natural History History B Naturalists History |
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| Summary: | Interposed between the natural world in all its diversity and the edited form in which we encounter it in literature, imagery and the museum, lie the multiple practices of the naturalists in selecting, recording and preserving the specimens from which our world view is to be reconstituted. The factors that weigh at every stage are here dissected, analysed and set within a historical narrative that spans more than five centuries. During that era, every aspect evolved and changed, as engagement with nature moved from a speculative pursuit heavily influenced by classical scholarship to a systematic science, drawing on advanced theory and technology. Far from being neutrally objective, the process of representing nature is shown as fraught with constraint and compromise. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben. - Index |
| ISBN: | 900432383X |