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Apothecary
Archaeology
Author_David Elliston Allen
Biology
Botany
Career
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Charles Darwin
Charles Kingsley
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Conchology
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Entomology
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Explanation
Formality
Fungus
Geologist
Geology
Gideon Mantell
Handbook
Herbarium
Horticulture
Illustration
Ingredient
Insect
Institution
Learning
Lecture
Leonard Jenyns
Lepidoptera
Linnean Society of London
Literature
London Society (organisation)
Marine aquarium
Marine biology
Middle class
Mollusca
Monograph
Natural history
Natural theology
Nature study
Optimism
Ordnance Survey
Ornithology
Paleontology
Philip Henry Gosse
Philosopher
Physician
Plant
Printing
Publication
Publishing
Quackery
Quantity
Raw material
Richard Owen
Romanticism
Scientist
Seaweed
Sentimentality
The Other Hand
The Various
Vegetation
Victorian era
Wardian case
Wealth
William Stukeley
William Wilberforce
Writing
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Zoology
Product details
- ISBN 9780691036328
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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At once a major resource for historians of science and an excellent introduction to natural history for the general reader, David Allen's The Naturalist in Britain established a precedent for investigating natural history as a social phenomenon. Here the author traces the evolution of natural history from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the "herbalizings" of apprentice apothecaries to the establishment of national reserves and international societies to the emergence of natural history as an organized discipline. Along the way he describes the role of scientific ideas, popular fashion, religious motivations, literary influences, the increase of leisure time and disposable income, and the tendency of like-minded persons to form clubs. His comprehensive and entertaining discussion creates a vibrant portrait of a scientific movement inextricably woven into a particular culture.
David Elliston Allen is coordinator of the History of Medicine Program of The Wellcome Trust. He is also Honorary Lecturer in the History of the Life Sciences, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and teaches at the University College, London.
