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Judith MageePublication Details
BookPennsylvania State University Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QH31.B23 M34 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
The Art and Science of William Bartram brings together, for the first time, all sixty-eight drawings by Bartram held at the Natural History Museum, along with works by some of the most well-known natural history artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Prologue : explorer, naturalist, and artist
- Plant hunting and the seed trade
- The merchant’s apprentice
- Cape Fear and competition
- Travels in Florida with the king’s botanist
- Finding a patron
- Travels : revisiting old haunts and discovering new ones
- Encounters and observations
- The Arcadian dream
- Describing, classifying, and naming
- American science comes of age : ornithology
- American science comes of age : entomology
- Following in Bartram’s footsteps
- Epilogue : contentment and serenity
ISBN
- 0271029145
- 9780271029146
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