Essays In Natural History And Agriculture

Nature and Historical Experience: Essays

📁 Nature and Historical Experience: Essays in Naturalism and in the Theory of History

✍ John Herman Randall 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

A collection of essays on the theory of history and the theory of nature. Topics include the genetic method and historical determinism, historical decision, the nature of metaphysics, empirical pluralism and unification of nature, ways of construing mind and intelligibility, and others.

The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in N

📁 The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History

✍ Jan Bondeson 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Cornell University Press 🌐 English

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom.

Encountering Past In Nature: Essays In E

📁 Encountering Past In Nature: Essays In Environmental History

✍ Timo Myllyntaus, Mikko Saikku, Alfred W. Crosby 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Ohio University Press 🌐 English

A collection of essays offering various approaches to environmental history. Issues covered range from the intellectual formation of environmental concepts to case studies of forest history and animal extinction. Most essays focus on the issue of wilderness and the use of forest resources.

The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An E

📁 The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History

✍ Juan Pimentel; Peter Mason 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to two mysterious beasts—a living rhinoceros previously known only from ancient texts and a nameless monster’s massive bones? Juan Pimentel shows that their reactions reflect deep cultural changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination

The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium. An E

📁 The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium. An Essay in Natural History

✍ Juan Pimentel 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon—the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its specie

Methodological and Historical Essays in

📁 Methodological and Historical Essays in the Natural and Social Sciences

✍ Herbert Feigl (auth.), Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 1974 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

Modem philosophy of science has turned out to be a Pandora's box. Once opened, the puzzling monsters appeared: not only was the neat structure of classical physics radically changed, but a variety of broader questions were let loose, bearing on the nature of scientific inquiry and of human knowle