The Great Naturalists Robert Huxley

The Great Naturalists by Robert Huxley (Editor). The story of the pure historical past as seen by way of the lives, observations, and discoveries of the world's biggest naturalists.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the great naturalists who described, experimented, and picked up, who gave us the means to know the natural world and the potential not solely to take advantage of it but also to preserve it. They came from all over Europe and America, from Classical occasions to the tip of the nineteenth century when natural history modified from a primarily amateur pursuit to right this moment's specialized scientific profession.

Braving risks from storms, pirates, and disease in their pursuit of cataloging the pure world, pioneers akin to Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin changed the course of science with their daring travels and groundbreaking theories. This e book contains many who are well known, such because the earliest great pure historian, Aristotle; Carl Linnaeus, the man who brought order to nature; the good voyager and collector Joseph Banks; and Georges Cuvier, who established the idea of extinction. But others are actually given their rightful place: Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who made his own microscopes and discovered microorganism; Nicolas Steno, who opened the door to the earth's geological past; and Mary Anning, "the princess of paleontology," who had a tremendous, self-taught talent for finding fossils.

Many whose lives are described right here were nice artists as well as naturalists, and the e-book is illustrated with beautiful and exact paintings and drawings of birds, animals, fossils, fish, shells, and rocks chosen from the unparalleled picture archives and collections of the Natural History Museum, London, as well as different sources. 194 illustrations, 137 in color.

Profound theories sprung from fertile imaginations, leaps of faith (and sometimes logic), and long lost skills of observation and contemplation are served out in chronological (and to a big extent evolutionary) order from the earliest naturalists to the newer, pre-photography age, in an eminently readable format. This glorious ebook combines the theoretical and empirical evaluation of flora, fauna (including bugs and other people) and geology with shockingly beautiful illustrations of what the heck they were speaking about. A number of woolens and beards--in a great way.

This e-book particulars an impressive overview of the thought processes and the work of the early naturalists as they gradually moved from the 'creationist idea' to the current day reality of our world's evolutionary progression. 

The Great Naturalists 

 Robert Huxley (Editor)

304 pages

Thames & Hudson; First Edition edition (October 29, 2007)

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