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First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1142

First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1870
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Development of Biological Systematics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

The Development of Biological Systematics

A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.

Cultures of Natural History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

Cultures of Natural History

This copiously illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. The centrality of the development of natural history for other branches of history - medical, colonial, gender, economic, ecological - is increasingly recognized. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the sixteenth century, when the first institutions of natural history were created, to its late nineteenth-century transformation by practitioners of the new biological sciences. An introduction discusses novel approaches that have made this a major focus for research in cultural history. The essays, which include suggestions for further reading, offer a coherent and accessible overview of a fascinating subject. An epilogue highlights the relevance of this wide-ranging survey for current debates on museum practice, the display of ecological diversity and concerns about the environment.

The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1877
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of Botany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Journal of Botany

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1877
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Ramble in Autumn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

A Ramble in Autumn

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1852
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Botanical Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Botanical Architecture

An original call to reorient architecture around our relationship to plants. When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. Whereas a tree creates its own structure, humans generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences. In Botanical Architecture, Paul Dobraszczyk looks closely at how elements of plants—seeds, roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers, and canopies—compare with and constitute human-made buildings. Given the omnipresence of plant life in and around our structures, Dobraszczyk argues that we ought to build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs. Botanical Architecture offers a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.

Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1140

Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1870
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Communicating Chemistry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Communicating Chemistry

Historians and philosophers of science offer 18 papers from a European Science Foundation workshop held in Uppsala, Sweden, in February 1996, explore such questions as how textbooks differ from other forms of chemical literature, under what conditions they become established as a genre, whether they develop a specific rhetoric, how their audiences help shape the profile of chemistry, translations, and other topics. Only names are indexed.

Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1200