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Routledge
This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
Acknowledgements, Note on Copy-text, General Introduction, Introduction to Volume 5, Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses (1665), John Ray, F.R.S., Philosophical Letters between Mr Ray and Several of his Correspondents (1718), John Ray, F.R.S., The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691), Edward Tyson, MD, Orang-Outang, sive Homo sylvestris (1699), Henry Baker, F.R.S., The Microscope Made Easy (1742), Charles Linnaeus, The Animal Kingdom, or, Zoological System, of Sir C. Linnaeus … by Robert Kerr (1792), Thomas Pennant, British Zoology (1768–70) and Arctic Zoology (1784), Lord Monboddo [James Burnett], ‘Preface’ to Mme Hecquet, Account of a Savage Girl caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne, trans. William Robertson (1768) and On the Origin and Process of Language (1773–92), George Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon, Natural History, General and Particular (1780, 1785), Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (1774), Charles Bonnet, ‘Experiments on the Reproduction of the Head of the Terrestrial Snail’ from Lazzaro Spallanzani, Opuscoli di fisica animale e vegetabile, trans. John Graham Dalyell as Tracts on the Nature of Animals and Vegetables (1799), Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life (1794, 1796), Daines Barrington, ‘Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds’, from The History of Singing Birds, Containing an Exact Description of their Habits & Customs (1791), Gilbert White, A Naturalist’s Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History (1795), Thomas Bewick and Ralph Beilby, History of British Birds, 6th edn (1826), Bibliography, Notes
Biography
Judith Hawley
