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18th-century naturalists from the Holy Roman Empire (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "18th-century naturalists" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
American nature writer, Donald C. Peattie, writes in The Road of a Naturalist about White's contribution to the public interest in birds: "The bird census, now so widely promulgated by the Audubon Society, was the invention of Gilbert White; he was the original exponent, as far as I know, of the close seasonal observation of Nature, a branch of ...
Pages in category "18th-century naturalists from the Holy Roman Empire" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A conference that promotes the legacy of 18th century naturalist William Bartram is coming to Athens this weekend. 18th century naturalist William Bartram remembered in Athens through speeches and ...
From the ancient Greeks until the work of Carl Linnaeus and other 18th-century naturalists, a major concept of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, an arrangement of minerals, vegetables, more primitive forms of animals, and more complex life forms on a linear scale of supposedly increasing perfection, culminating in ...
Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". [2] Credited with being one of the first naturalists to recognize ecological succession , he was later forced by the theology committee at the University of Paris to recant his theories about geological history and ...
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and describing people ...
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Pages in category "18th-century German naturalists" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. This list may ...