Article ID: CBB001420547

The Scientist as Historian: Paulo Vanzolini and the Origins of Zoology in Brazil (2011)

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The Brazilian Paulo Vanzolini is one of the leading herpetologists worldwide. Besides his publications as a zoologist and his activities as a former museum curator and policymaker, Vanzolini pursued a long-life career as a musician and contributed to many different fields such as biostatistics, biogeography and the history of science. The paper analyzes his historical contributions to a key chapter of science in Southern America, the legacy of the so-called traveler naturalists. His analyses comprise major scientists such as Marcgrave, Spix, von Martius, Wied-Neuwied, Castelnau, and Agassiz, are informed by re-analyses of original sources and represent an invaluable repository of historical and scientific information.

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Authors & Contributors
Warner, Charles H. (Chuck)
Bruce S. Lieberman
Tonn, Jenna
Correa, Thomas
Sombrio, Mariana M. O.
Augusto Ferreira Brandao Junior
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
SPARNZ Notes
Victorian Studies
Railroad History
Journal of the History of Collections
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University Press of Kansas
University of California Press
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Editrice Bibliografica
Geological Society of America
Concepts
Museums
Zoology
Naturalists
Collections
Herpetology
Natural history
People
Charles D. Bunker
Wanda Hanke
Potter, Walter
Papavero, Nelson
Marcgrave, George
Hennig, Willi
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Brazil
South America
Argentina
United States
Paraguay
Kansas (U.S.)
Institutions
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley)
History of Science Society
Harvard University
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