Brian W. Ogilvie
The Science of Describing
Brian W. Ogilvie · 2008
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Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. This text reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists.
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 402
- ISBN
- 9780226620886
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