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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Authors & Contributors
Roman, Hanna
Terrall, Mary
Guerrini, Anita
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Wattles, Gurdon
Stalnaker, Joanna
Journals
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Publishers
Liverpool University Press
H. Champion
Concepts
Natural history
Zoology
Biology
Science
Evolution
Sociology
People
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Trembley, Abraham
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
Bonnet, Charles
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
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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