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The science of describing : natural history in Renaissance Europe /
Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. In order to distinguish and catalog new plant and animal species, they developed new techniques of o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The world of Renaissance natural nistory
- The humanist invention of natural history
- A science of describing
- Common sense, classification, and the catalogue of nature
- Conclusion : what was Renaissance natural history.