Author: Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Annual Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College in Cambridge
Author: Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Bibliographical Contributions
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Bibliographical Contributions
Author: Harvard University. Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385376378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385376378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Louis Agassiz
Author: Christoph Irmscher
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547568924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
“This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force in American science. Yet today, many don’t know the complex story behind this revolutionary figure. At a young age, Agassiz—zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist—was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, and he never left. An obsessive pioneer in field research, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike—and entered into collaboration with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth, a science writer in her own right and first president of Radcliffe College. But there was a dark side to his reputation as well. Biographer Christoph Irmscher reveals unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans at the time looked to men of science to mediate race policy. He also explores Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution, his battles with a student—renowned naturalist Henry James Clark—and how he became a source of endless bemusement for Charles Darwin and esteemed botanist Asa Gray. “A wonderful . . . biography,” both inspiring and cautionary, it is for anyone interested in the history of American ideas (The Christian Science Monitor). “A model of what a talented and erudite literary scholar can do with a scientific subject.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547568924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
“This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force in American science. Yet today, many don’t know the complex story behind this revolutionary figure. At a young age, Agassiz—zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist—was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, and he never left. An obsessive pioneer in field research, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike—and entered into collaboration with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth, a science writer in her own right and first president of Radcliffe College. But there was a dark side to his reputation as well. Biographer Christoph Irmscher reveals unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans at the time looked to men of science to mediate race policy. He also explores Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution, his battles with a student—renowned naturalist Henry James Clark—and how he became a source of endless bemusement for Charles Darwin and esteemed botanist Asa Gray. “A wonderful . . . biography,” both inspiring and cautionary, it is for anyone interested in the history of American ideas (The Christian Science Monitor). “A model of what a talented and erudite literary scholar can do with a scientific subject.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
The American Naturalist
Author:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Report of the Council
Author: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Condition and Doings of the Boston Society of Natural History as Exhibited by the Annual Reports
Author: Boston Society of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Conditions and Doings of the Boston Society of Natural History as Exhibited by the Annual Reports of the Custodian, Treasurer, Librarian and Curators
Author: Boston Society of Natural History
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Condition and Doings of the Boston Society of Natural History as Exhibited by the Annual Reports of the Custodian, Treasurer, Librarian and Curators
Author: Boston Society of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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