John Bachman [electronic resource] : selected writings on science, race, and religion / edited by Gene Waddell.
Bachman, John, 1790-1874.; Waddell, Gene.
2011
QL715 .B12 2011eb
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Title John Bachman [electronic resource] : selected writings on science, race, and religion / edited by Gene Waddell.
Author Bachman, John, 1790-1874.
Uniform Title Selections. 2011
ISBN 9780820339641 (electronic bk.)
9780820338187
0820338184
Publication Details Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 380 p.) : ill. (some col. )
Call Number QL715 .B12 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.097
Summary John Bachman (1790-1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species. Bachman was the leading authority on North American mammals. He was responsible for the descriptions of the 147 mammal species included in Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, a massive work produced in collaboration with John James Audubon. Bachman relied entirely on scientific evidence in his work and was exceptional among his fellow naturalists for studying the whole of natural history. Bachman also relied on scientific evidence in his Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race. He showed that human beings constitute a single species that developed as varieties equivalent to the varieties of domesticated animals. In this work, perhaps his most significant accomplishment, Bachman stood nearly alone in challenging the polygenetic views of Louis Agassiz and others that white and black people descended from different progenitors. Bachman was also an important figure in the establishment of Lutheranism in the Southeast. He wrote the first American monograph on the doctrines of Martin Luther and the history of the Reformation. Bachman served for fifty-six years as minister of St. John's Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and was one of the founders of Newberry College.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Publications of the Southern Texts Society
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Machine generated contents note: Address Delivered before the Horticultural Society of Charleston
Experiments Made on the Habits of the Vultures
Migration of North American Birds
Species of Squirrel Inhabiting North America
Changes of Colour in Birds and Quadrupeds
Benefits of an Agricultural Survey
American Beaver: A Chapter from Audubon and Bachman's Quadrupeds
Generation of the Opossum
Unity of the Human Race
Defense of Luther and the Reformation
Address on Education
Vindication
Selected Letters, 1831-1871.

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