Author: Richard OwenPublisher:
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Category : Laziness
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth
Author: Richard OwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laziness
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth, Mylodon Robustus, Owen, with Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and Probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in General
Author: R. OwenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth
Author: Richard OwenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461953244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth, Mylodon Robustus, with Observations on the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in General
Author: Richard OwenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth, Mylodon Robustus, Owen ...
Author: Richard OwenPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Richard Owen
Author: Nicolaas RupkePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226731782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Charles Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history. With this innovative biography, Nicolaas A. Rupke resuscitates Owen’s reputation. Arguing that Owen should no longer be judged by the evolution dispute that figured in only a minor part of his work, Rupke stresses context, emphasizing the importance of places and practices in the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing with the recent resurgence of interest in Owen’s life and work, Rupke’s book brings the forgotten naturalist back into the canon of the history of science and demonstrates how much biology existed with, and without, Darwin
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium
Author: Juan PimentelPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674974425
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon—the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to these two mysterious beasts—a rhinoceros, known only from ancient texts, and a nameless monster? As Juan Pimentel explains, the reactions reflect deep intellectual changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination to shape our understanding of the natural world. We know the rhinoceros today as “Dürer’s Rhinoceros,” after the German artist’s iconic woodcut. His portrait was inaccurate—Dürer never saw the beast and relied on conjecture, aided by a sketch from Lisbon. But the influence of his extraordinary work reflected a steady move away from ancient authority to the dissemination in print of new ideas and images. By the time the megatherium arrived in Spain, that movement had transformed science. When published drawings found their way to Paris, the great zoologist Georges Cuvier correctly deduced that the massive bones must have belonged to an extinct giant sloth. It was a pivotal moment in the discovery of the prehistoric world. The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium offers a penetrating account of two remarkable episodes in the cultural history of science and is itself a vivid example of the scientific imagination at work.
Catalogue of Books on Natural Science in the Radcliffe Library at the Oxford University Museum, Up to December, 1872
Author: Radcliffe Library (University of Oxford)Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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The Life of Richard Owen, by His Grandson. With the Scientific Portions Rev. by C. Davies Sherborn, Also an Essay on Owen's Position in Anatomical Science by T. H. Huxley
Author: Rev. Richard OwenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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The Life of Richard Owen
Author: Rev. Richard OwenPublisher:
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Category : Biologists
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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