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The great naturalists / edited by Robert Huxley. New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2007. Subjects Naturalists.   Natural history. ISBN:  9780500251393 : 0500251398 Description:  304 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. Contents:  Unity in diversity -- [pt. 1]. The ancients -- Aristotle : the first philosopher-naturalist / Julia Brtittain -- Theophrastus : the father of botany / Christopher J. Humphries & David Sutton -- Pedanios Dioscorides : recording the medicinal use of plants / David Sutton -- Pliny the Elder : collector of knowledge / David Sutton -- [pt. 2]. The Renaissance -- Leonhart Fuchs : the value of illustrations / Brian W. Ogilvie -- Ulisse Aldrovandi : observation at first hand / Giuseppe Olmi -- Andrea Cesalpino : physician, philosopher and botanist / Robert Huxley & Christopher J. Humphries -- Pierre Belon : pioneer of comparative anatomy / Alan Cutler -- Konrad Gessner : the beginnings of modern zoology / Sachiko Kusukawa -- [pt. 3]. The enlightenment -- Nicolaus Steno : unlocking the earth's geological past / Alan Cutler -- John Ray : the English Aristotle / Robert Huxley -- Robert Hooke : natural history through the microscope / Brian J. Ford -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek : the discoverer of bacteria / Brian J. Ford -- Sir Hans Sloane : the great collector / Robert Huxley -- Maria Sibylla Merian : the metamorphosis of insects / H. Walter Lack -- Mark Catesby : colonial naturalist and artist / Steve Cafferty -- Carl Linnaeus : the man who brought order to nature / Christopher J. Humphries & Robert Huxley -- Comte de Buffon : a grand theorist / Sandra Knapp -- Georg Steller : the discovery of Alaska / Robert Press -- Michel Adanson : a universal method of classification / Denis Lamy -- Erasmus Darwin : evolutionary beginnings / Robert Press -- William Bartram : scientific recorder and artist / Judith Magee -- Joseph Banks : voyager and patron of natural history / Tania Durt -- Johann Christian Fabricius : classifier of insect diversity / R.I. Vane-Wright -- James Hutton : discoverer of geological time / Jill Cook -- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck : the inheritance of acquired characteristics / Sandra Knapp -- Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu : a new method of plant classification / Denis Lamy -- Georges Cuvier : extinction and the animal kingdom / Philippe Taquet -- [pt. 4]. The 19th century -- William Smith : the father of English geology / John L. Morton -- Alexander von Humboldt : a vision of the unity of nature / Judith Magee -- John James Audubon : artist, naturalist and adventurer / Roberta J.M. Olson -- William Buckland : first to describe a dinosaur / Jill Cook -- Charles Lyell : advocate of modern geology / Jill Cook -- Mary Anning : fossil hunter / Crispin Tickell -- Richard Owen : champion of comparative anatomy / David Williams -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz : examination, observation, comparison / David Williams -- Charles Darwin : the complete naturalist / Keith Thomson -- Alfred Russel Wallace : the problem of the origin of species / Sandra Knapp -- Asa Gray : the plants of the American Southwest / Sandra Knapp -- Contributors -- Further reading -- Sources of illustrations -- Index. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 508.0922 Gr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 508.0922 Great Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 508.0922 Gr Lost 04/05/2013 Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 508.0922 Gr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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