Catching Nature in the Act: Raumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century - Mary Terrall - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226088600 - April 16, 2014
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Catching Nature in the Act: Raumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century

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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. This book reveals how eighteenth-century natural historians incorporated various experimental techniques.

264 pages, 46 halftones

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Released April 16, 2014
ISBN13 9780226088600
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 264
Dimensions 236 × 162 × 24 mm   ·   552 g
Language English  

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