Discovering Birds: The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760-1850

by Paul Lawrence Farber

In this penetrating case study of the history of ornithology, Farber demonstrates interesting continuities: as natural history evolved into individual sciences (botany, geology, and zoology) and specialties (entomology and ichthyology), the study of birds emerged as a distinct scientific discipline that remained observational and taxonomic.

In Discovering Birds, Paul Lawrence Farber rejects the view that eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801855373
• ISBN13: 9780801855375
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"