Robert Brown and Mungo Park : travels and explorations in natural history for the Royal Society / Joel Schwartz.
2021
QH11 .S38 2021
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Robert Brown and Mungo Park : travels and explorations in natural history for the Royal Society / Joel Schwartz.
ISBN
9783030748593 (electronic bk.)
3030748596 (electronic bk.)
9783030748586
3030748588
3030748596 (electronic bk.)
9783030748586
3030748588
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number
9783030748593
10.1007/978-3-030-74859-3 doi
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021082903001924910461 urn
10.1007/978-3-030-74859-3 doi
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021082903001924910461 urn
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QH11 .S38 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
508.072
Summary
Explorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work is a fresh examination of the lives and careers of Brown and Park and their impact on natural history and exploration. Brown and Park were part of a group of intrepid naturalists who brought back some of the flora and fauna they encountered, drawings of what they observed, and most importantly, their ideas. The educated public back home was able to gain an understanding of the diversity in nature. This eventually led to the development of new ways of regarding the natural world and the eventual development of a coherent theory of organic evolution. This book considers these naturalists, Brown, Park, and their contemporaries, from the perspective of the Scottish Enlightenment. Brown's investigations in natural history created a fertile environment for breakthroughs in taxonomy, cytology, and eventually evolution. Brown's pioneering work in plant taxonomy allowed biologists to look at the animal and plant kingdoms differently. Park's adventures stimulated significant discoveries in exploration. Brown and Park's adventures formed a bridge to such journeys as Charles Darwin's voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, which led to a revolution in biology and full explication of the theory of evolution.
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Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden ; v. 122. 0077-8931
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Collecting, Observing, and Describing the Natural World
Scientific Ferment in late Eighteenth Century Edinburgh
Scientific Exploration During Voyages of Discovery
... the plants of Scotland might be equally useful
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
A good practical Botanist
So remote a country as New Holland
The Crew labouring under the Same disorder
Mungo Park's Last Journey
A Tedious and Uncomfortable Passage
Prodrommus, Florae Novae Hollndiae
Banks's Librarian
Taking leave of Sir Joseph Banks
Pollen Grains of Clarkis pulchella
Epilogue: The greatest of Banksian botanist-librarians
Bibliography.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Collecting, Observing, and Describing the Natural World
Scientific Ferment in late Eighteenth Century Edinburgh
Scientific Exploration During Voyages of Discovery
... the plants of Scotland might be equally useful
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
A good practical Botanist
So remote a country as New Holland
The Crew labouring under the Same disorder
Mungo Park's Last Journey
A Tedious and Uncomfortable Passage
Prodrommus, Florae Novae Hollndiae
Banks's Librarian
Taking leave of Sir Joseph Banks
Pollen Grains of Clarkis pulchella
Epilogue: The greatest of Banksian botanist-librarians
Bibliography.