Alexander Wilson : Enlightened Naturalist Hardback
by Edward H., Jr. Burtt
Part of the Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures series
Hardback
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When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation.
Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance.
In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species.
It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ambitious Enlightenment ideology that this remarkable collection of five essays on Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), the father of American ornithology, makes its original and delightful contribution.
Alexander Wilson: Enlightened Naturalist recovers Wilson’s literary, artistic and musical pursuits, and the cultural contexts of his life in the Scotland of Robert Burns.
It also explores Wilson’s scientific and philosophic contribution to American ornithology in American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, published in Philadelphia between 1808 and 1814.
Alexander Wilson is richly illustrated, links to a web site of audio readings of Wilson’s Scots poems– links that are embedded in the ebook–and includes a tribute to the late Edward H.
Burtt, Jr., who died shortly before publication.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Color Illustrations; Black & White Illustrations
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press
- Publication Date:10/11/2016
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- ISBN:9781611487947
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Color Illustrations; Black & White Illustrations
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press
- Publication Date:10/11/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781611487947
