Farber P.L. The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline: 1760-1850

Reidel, 1982. - 191 p.
This monograph offers a case study of a central episode within the larger history of the transformation of natural history. Ornithology emerged as one of the first zoological disciplines during the fragmentation of natural history. It was a discipline that attracted considerable attention and support, and it was the setting for major theoretical debates as well as important empirical discoveries. For these reasons it can serve as an excellent example of the changes that took place in natural history during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Furthermore, it raises questions and issues that need to be explored for a history of natural history that can be integrated into a general history of the period.Knowledge of Birds in the Eighteenth Century.
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