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"Of Birds of Passage": Mark Catesby and Contemporary Theories on Bird Migration and Torpor (2015)

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"Part artist, part adventurer, part scientist, Englishman Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was a pioneering figure in the scientific exploration of the New World. Begun more than 50 years before the American Revolution, his Natural history of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands was the first fully illustrated study of North American flora and fauna."

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Authors & Contributors
McBurney, Henrietta
Alan H. Brush
Suzanne Linder Hurley
Kraig Alder
Robert Robertson
Ghillean T. Prance
Concepts
Natural history
Botany
Bookmaking
Science and art
Zoology
Travel; exploration
Time Periods
18th century
Places
South Carolina (U.S.)
North Carolina (U.S.)
Bahamas
Virginia (U.S.)
Florida (U.S.)
England
Institutions
University of Virginia
Royal Society of London
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