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THE ANCIENTS 20 UNIVERS1TATS- BIBUOTHEK Aristotle HEIDELBERG THE FIRST PHILOSOPHER-NATURALIST 22 JULIA BRITTAtN Theophrastus THE FATHER OF BOTANY 28 CHRISTOPHERJ. HUMPHRIES & DAVID SUTTON Pedanios Dioscorides RECORDING THE MEDICINAL USE OF PLANTS 32 DAVID SUTTON Pliny the Elder COLLECTOR OF KNOWLEDGE 38 DAVID SUTTON
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ISBN 978-0-500-25139-3 John Ray THE ENGLISH ARISTOTLE 92 Printed and bound in China by C&C Offset Printing Co., Ltd. ROBERT HUXLEY Robert Hooke Antoine-Laurent dejussieu NATURAL HISTORY THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE 98 A NEW METHOD OF PLANT CLASSIFICATION • 197 BRIAN j. FORD DENIS LAMY Antony van Leewwenhoek . Georges Cuvier THE DISCOVERER OF BACTERIA 104 EXTINCTION AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 202 BRIAN J. FORD PHILIPPE TAQUET Sir Hans Sloane THE GREAT COLLECTOR 111 THE 19TH CENTURY 212 ROBERT HUXLEY William Smith Maria Sibylla Merian THE FATHER OF ENGLISH GEOLOGY 218 THE METAMORPHOSIS OF INSECTS 118 JOHN L. MORTON H. WALTER LACK Alexander von Humboldt Mark Gates by A VISION OF THE UNITY OF NATURE 224 COLONIAL NATURALIST AND ARTIST 124 JUDITH MAGEE STEVE CAFFERTY John James Audubon Carl Linnaeus ARTIST, NATURALIST AND ADVENTURER 233 THE MAN WHO BROUGHT ORDER TO NATURE 132 ROBERTA J.M.OLSON CHRISTOPHER J. HUMPHRIES & ROBERT HUXLEY William Buck land Comte de Bujfon FIRST TO DESCRIBE A DINOSAUR 241 A GRAND THEORIST 140 JILL COOK SANDRA KNAPP Charles Lyell Georg Steller ADVOCATE OF MODERN GEOLOGY 246 THE DISCOVERY OF ALASKA 149 JILL COOK ROBERT PRESS Mary Anning Michel Adanson FOSSIL HUNTER 250 A UNIVERSAL METHOD OF CLASSIFICATION 153 CRISPIN TICKELL DENIS LAMY Richard Owen Erasmus Darwin CHAMPION OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 255 EVOLUTIONARY BEGINNINGS 159 DAVID WILLIAMS ROBERT PRESS Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz William Bar tram EXAMINATION, OBSERVATION, COMPARISON 261 SCIENTIFIC RECORDER AND ARTIST 165 DAVID WILLIAMS JUDITH MAGEE Charles Darwin Joseph Banks THE COMPLETE NATURALIST 267 VOYAGER AND PATRON OF NATURAL HISTORY 173 KEITH THOMSON TANIADURT Alfred Russel Wallace Johann Christian Fabricius THE PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 277 CLASSIFIER OF INSECT DIVERSITY 182 SANDRA KNAPP R. I. VANE-WRIGHT Asa Gray James Hutton THE PLANTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST 286 DISCOVERER OF GEOLOGICAL TIME 186 SANDRA KNAPP JILL COOK CONTRIBUTORS 293 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck FURTHER READING 294 THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS 190 SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS 300 SANDRA KNAPP INDEX 301 PPN: 27420603X Titel: The great naturalists / edited by Robert Huxley. - . - London : Thames & Hudson, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-500-25139-3(hbk.)£24.95 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund