Mary Terrall: 1 book
Catching Nature in the Act
Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God’s providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety...
