Virtuoso by Nature The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS 1635 1672 Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 03 May 2016

Francis Willughby transformed the study of natural history in the mid-1600s. Using previously unexplored archives and new discoveries we show that Willughby was a polymath, a true virtuoso, who

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 03 May 2018

'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Review Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 28 December 2023

Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 23 May 2018

This book examines the ways in which spaces and places of solitude were conceived of, imagined, and represented in the late medieval and early modern periods. It explores the spatial,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 16 May 2024

This volume is an invaluable portrait of family, kinship, regional and national dynamics in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Based on letters and papers that Cassandra Willoughby found in

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 09 June 2017

After Sir Isaac Newton revealed his discovery that white light was compounded of more basic colored rays, he was hailed as a genius and became an instant international celebrity. An

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
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• Release Date : 19 April 2019

Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 22 November 2018

Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 09 January 2024

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
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• Release Date : 18 June 2019

Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologies, considering how notions of gender