The Naturalist in Britain (eBook)

A Social History

David Elliston Allen (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4344-2 (ISBN)

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At once a major resource for historians of science and an excellent introduction to natural history for the general reader, David Allen's The Naturalist in Britain established a precedent for investigating natural history as a social phenomenon. Here the author traces the evolution of natural history from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the "e;herbalizings"e; of apprentice apothecaries to the establishment of national reserves and international societies to the emergence of natural history as an organized discipline. Along the way he describes the role of scientific ideas, popular fashion, religious motivations, literary influences, the increase of leisure time and disposable income, and the tendency of like-minded persons to form clubs. His comprehensive and entertaining discussion creates a vibrant portrait of a scientific movement inextricably woven into a particular culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 11 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Aberdeen University • Albert, Prince Consort • Amateur • amenity movement • Annals of Natural History • apothecary • archaeology • Aurelian Society • Babington family • Barclay family • Bedfordshire Society • Biology • bird migration • Boerhaave, Herman • Bolton, James • Botany • British Birds (magazine) • British Field Club • British Ornithologists' Union • Browne, Sir Thomas • Buxton family • Career • Chapone, Hester • Charles Darwin • Charles Kingsley • Clealand, James • Collecting • Collingwood, Cuthbert • conchology • conservation • Crowther, James • curator • Davy, Sir Humphrey • Dohrn, Anton • Dredging • Ecology • Edinburgh Review • Education • Entomological Club • Entomology • Explanation • Fabian Society • Fair Isle bird observatory • field-work • formality • Forster, Edward • fungus • Gatty, Margaret • General Practitioner • geologist • Geology • George Bentham • Gideon Mantell • Handbook • Herbarium • Hoare family • horticulture • Huxley family • Illustration • ingredient • insect • Insect Immigration Committee • Institution • Israel Lyons • James Edward Smith • Jameson, Robert • John Buchan • Joseph Dandridge • Journal of Ecology • Kew Observatory • king's college london • Knowlton, Thomas • learning • Lecture • Leonard Jenyns • Lepidoptera • Ley, Augustin • Linnean Society of London • Literature • Livelihood • Loddiges, Messrs (nurserymen) • London Society (organisation) • Macaulay family • Magazine of Natural History • Marine aquarium • Marine Biology • middle class • Mollusca • Monograph • Natural History • Natural Theology • Nature Conservancy • Nature Study • New Naturalist • newspaper • On Plants • optimism • Ordnance survey • Ornithology • Palaeontographical Society • paleontology • Pamphlet • Patrick Geddes • Patronage • Philip Henry Gosse • Philosopher • Physician • Physiology • Plant • Populism • printing • Publication • Publishing • quackery • Quantity • Quarterly Review • Rand, Isaac • raw material • result • Richard Owen • Romanticism • Royal Institution • Royal Irish Academy • Scientist • S. (Dorst novel) • Seaweed • sentimentality • Stanley Baldwin • Suggestion • Tax • taxidermy • The Other Hand • The Various • Thomas Henry Huxley • Vegetation • Vice-county • Victorian Era • vitalism • Wardian case • Wealth • William Stukeley • William Wilberforce • Writing • year • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4344-8 / 1400843448
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4344-2 / 9781400843442