Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World

by José M. Gómez Durán and Edward O. Wilson

Book Overview

One of the earliest New World naturalists, Jos Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrieves Mutis's contributions from obscurity.

In 1760, the 28-year-old Mutis--newly appointed as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801897858
• ISBN13: 9780801897856
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher