Chapter ID: CBB000082019

Codes of passion: Natural history specimens as a polite language in late 18th-century France (1999)

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Description Focuses on the bird collections of Réaumur and Buffon.


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Book Author missing; (1999) Wissenschaft als kulturelle Praxis, 1750-1900. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Roman, Hanna
Terrall, Mary
Guerrini, Anita
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Wattles, Gurdon
Stalnaker, Joanna
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Fordham University
Boston College
Liverpool University Press
Johns Hopkins University
H. Champion
Cornell University Press
Concepts
Natural history
Zoology
Biology
Science
Evolution
Sociology
People
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
Diderot, Denis
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monet de
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
16th century
Places
France
Scotland
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Jardin du roi (France)
Académie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris
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