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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Thomas Pennant"”.
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An examination of Edward Lhwyd’s journey to Scotland in 1699 with particular reference to folk culture and language
… at this time and the experiences of Martin and Thomas Pennant, respectively a contemporary and a later traveller in Scotland. Finally, his contribution to Scottish Gaelic linguistics and his Scottish findings in the areas of antiquarianism, natural history and ethnography are reviewed and I …
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Managing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment: The Practice of Natural History in Britain, 1760-1820
… eighteenth century, Joseph Banks (1743–1820), Thomas Pennant (1726–98) and Gilbert White (1720–93), this dissertation examines the integration of printed books into the practice of natural history. Although there has been significant work on the development of philosophical systems for …
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The pursuit of nature: defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain
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 …