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The pursuit of nature: defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain

Gibson, SusannahUniversity of Cambridge2012

Many histories of natural history see it as a descriptive science, as a clear forerunner to modern studies of classification, ecology and allied sciences. But this thesis argues that the story of unproblematic progression from eighteenth-century natural history to nineteenth-century and modern …

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