Book ID: CBB000071025

Cultures of Natural History (1996)

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Curry, Helen Anne (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1996
Edition Details: Edited by N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary
Physical Details: xxi + 501 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Jardine, Nicholas, Spary, Emma C.: The natures of cultural history. Ashworth, William B., Jr.: Emblematic natural history of the Renaissance. Cunningham, Andrew: The culture of gardens. Findlen, Paula: Courting nature. Whitaker, Katie: The culture of curiosity. Cook, Harold J.: Physicians and natural history. Johns, Adrian: Natural history as print culture. Roche, Daniel: Natural history in the academies. Koerner, Lisbet: Carl Linnaeus in his time and place. Schiebinger, Londa: Gender and natural history. Spary, Emma C.: Political, natural and bodily economics. Wood, Paul B.: The science of man. Guntau, Martin: The natural history of the earth. Jardine, Nicholas: Naturphilosophie and the kingdoms of nature. Outram, Dorinda: New spaces in natural history. Rudwick, Martin J.S.: Minerals, strata and fossils. Dettelbach, Michael: Humboldtian science. Browne, Janet: Biogeography and empire. Beer, Gillian: Travelling the other way. Bravo, Michael T.: Ethnological encounters. Larsen, Anne: Equipment for the field. Secord, Anne: Artisan botany. Allen, David: Tastes and crazes. Drouin, Jean-Marc, Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette: Nature for the people. Nyhart, Lynn K.: Natural history and the “new” biology. Secord, James A.: Epilogue: The crisis of nature.


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Authors & Contributors
Jardine, Nicholas
Werthheimer, Michael
Speer, Andreas
Spary, Emma C.
Secord, James A.
Rescher, Nicholas
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Science
Astronomy
Science education and teaching
Botany
Science and Technology
Time Periods
Early modern
19th century
Medieval
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
France
Europe
Institutions
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
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