Author: Peter Martin Duncan
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Category : Arachnida
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea.)
Author: Peter Martin Duncan
Publisher:
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Category : Arachnida
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arachnida
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea)
Author: Peter Martin Duncan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385445256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385445256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects
Author: Peter Martin Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arachnida
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arachnida
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Catalogues
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Catalogue of Works on Natural History
Author: Bernard Quaritch
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In Darwin's Shadow
Author: Michael Shermer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019992385X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this landmark biography. Here we see Wallace as perhaps the greatest naturalist of his age--spending years in remote jungles, collecting astounding quantities of specimens, writing thoughtfully and with bemused detachment at his reception in places where no white man had ever gone. Here, too, is his supple and forceful intelligence at work, grappling with such arcane problems as the bright coloration of caterpillars, or shaping his 1858 paper on natural selection that prompted Darwin to publish (with Wallace) the first paper outlining the theory of evolution. Shermer also shows that Wallace's self-trained intellect, while powerful, also embraced surprisingly naive ideas, such as his deep interest in the study of spiritual manifestations and seances. Shermer shows that the same iconoclastic outlook that led him to overturn scientific orthodoxy as he worked in relative isolation also led him to embrace irrational beliefs, and thus tarnish his reputation. As author of Why People Believe Weird Things and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, Shermer is an authority on why people embrace the irrational. Now he turns his keen judgment and incisive analysis to Wallace's life and his contradictory beliefs, restoring a leading figure in the rise of modern science to his rightful place.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019992385X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this landmark biography. Here we see Wallace as perhaps the greatest naturalist of his age--spending years in remote jungles, collecting astounding quantities of specimens, writing thoughtfully and with bemused detachment at his reception in places where no white man had ever gone. Here, too, is his supple and forceful intelligence at work, grappling with such arcane problems as the bright coloration of caterpillars, or shaping his 1858 paper on natural selection that prompted Darwin to publish (with Wallace) the first paper outlining the theory of evolution. Shermer also shows that Wallace's self-trained intellect, while powerful, also embraced surprisingly naive ideas, such as his deep interest in the study of spiritual manifestations and seances. Shermer shows that the same iconoclastic outlook that led him to overturn scientific orthodoxy as he worked in relative isolation also led him to embrace irrational beliefs, and thus tarnish his reputation. As author of Why People Believe Weird Things and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, Shermer is an authority on why people embrace the irrational. Now he turns his keen judgment and incisive analysis to Wallace's life and his contradictory beliefs, restoring a leading figure in the rise of modern science to his rightful place.
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Supplementary Catalogue of the Books Added to the Parliamentary Library
Author: Parliamentary Library of South Australia
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Popular Science Review
Author: James Samuelson
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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