The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842University of Alabama Press, 1986 - 251 páginas "Charlotte Porter offers vivid details on the physical and professional trials of field naturalists, handicapped by lack of access to libraries and collections and held in deep disdain by the eastern savants, who more and more scorned their publications, rejected their species-splitting taxonomy, excluded them from the review process, and relegated them to the status of hirelings. Porter draws a poignant picture of the treatment thus accorded Titian Peale and flawed genius Constantine Rafinesque."--Journal of American History "Vividly reflect the considerable enthusiasm with which early 19th century American naturalists attempted to develop the natural sciences....This work is of considerable interest and contains a useful panoramic account of the fresh perspectives that early American practitioners brought to the natural sciences."--History of Biology Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\: *{behavior: url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: Ɛ mso-fareast-language: Ɛ mso-bidi-language: Ɛ} "When Benjamin Silliman, a 22-year-old lawyer completely unschooled in the sciences, was appointed to the first professorship of natural science at Yale University, he immediately set off for Philadelphia. To Silliman in 1802, Philadelphia 'presented more advantage to science than any other place in our country.' Soon thereafter William Maclure, 'father' of American geology and an early president of the Academy of Natural Sciences, became the dominant figure within Philadelphia's considerable population of naturalists. The Philadelphia circle justly serves as a focus for The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842, Charlotte M. Porter's study of early American forays into natural history."--New York Times Review of Books |
Contenido
An Invitation I | 1 |
PRECEDENTS | 13 |
The Quality of Nature | 15 |
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Academy of Natural academy's Alexander Wilson American natural history American Ornithology American Philosophical Society Amos Eaton animals Asa Gray Audubon Benjamin biological birds Bonaparte botanists Botany Buffon's C. S. Rafinesque Cambridge Carey century Charles Lucien Charles Willson Peale classification collections Conchology Despite edition Edward Hicks engraved Exploring field naturalists geological George Ord Godman Harmony Harris Papers Harvard University Hicks's Houghton Library human ideas illustrated Indians James John Torrey Journal of Science LeSueur Linnaean Linnaeus Long Expedition Maclure's mammals Michaux microfilm Mitchill Morton natu Natural Sciences natural system Niagara North American Nuttall's Owen Owen's painting Peaceable Kingdom Peale's museum Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pickering plants plates Port Folio printed published Quaker Rafinesque's ralists Richard Harlan Samuel G Say to Thaddeus Say's scientific specimens Sylva taxonomic Thomas Jefferson Thomas Nuttall Thomas Say tion Titian Peale Titian Ramsay Peale United University Press vols volumes William Bartram William Maclure York Zoology
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