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- Book Title
- Catching Nature in the Act : Reaumur and the Practice of Natural
- ISBN
- 9780226088600
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Catching Nature in the Act : Raumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 19.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Natural history in the eighteenth century was at once diffuse, because it found its subject matter everywhere and anywhere, and intensely focused, because its practitioners amassed minute and seemingly inconsequential details of structure or function in nature. Its practitioners put enormous time and effort into observing, cultivating, chasing, collecting, dissecting, preserving, drawing, and describing all manner of creatures (and plants, fossils, and rocks). By bringing her central figure--the definitive authority on natural history in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757)--and his many correspondents, assistants, and collaborators to life, Mary Terrall reveals that their daily practices also incorporated all kinds of experimental techniques and strategies. She argues that the common characterization of natural history as either classification or anatomical description misrepresents the core activities and motivations of naturalists who studied animals. This book vividly reconstructs the working relationships among these naturalists that made their science possible. Terrall situates them in everyday lives and households, showing them at work in their homes, gardens, museums, and laboratories. Essential reading for historians of science and early modern Europe, Catching Nature in the Act defines and excavates a dynamic field of francophone natural history that has been inadequately mined and understood to date.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022608860x
ISBN-13
9780226088600
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7038260420
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Catching Nature in the Act : Raumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
19.3 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Qh15.T47 2014
Reviews
Should be considered essential reading for historians of science, but Terrall's narrative style and storytelling ability will make it appeal to a much broader audience., Eminently readable. . . . Mary Terrall strikes a fine balance between description and explanation, enriching compelling analyses with fascinating anecdotes., Catching Nature in the Act offers a fascinating and compelling account of what it meant to practice natural history in the eighteenth century. Réaumur was one of the most disciplined and tireless advocates of the spirit of observation in the age of the French Enlightenment, and this vividly rendered study brings to life the world of this important mathematician turned naturalist, whose contributions help to explain why the eighteenth century was the age in which natural history became a science for society., Terrall does an excellent job in articulating and demonstrating different ways of doing natural history in the early to mid- eighteenth century. She also captures the thrill of doing natural history, of catching nature in the act., A lively narrative, where members of what we call today the 'scientific network' of naturalists have the spotlight, and where a large place is reserved for the story of the--at times highly amusing--experiments conducted by the learned jack of all trades and his followers., In this beautifully crafted study of francophone natural history in the Enlightenment, Terrall draws back the curtain on the intertwined lives and practices of the naturalists, much as they drew the curtain on the intimate lives of the insects, birds, and other animals they observed so obsessively. She ingeniously exploits every scrap of evidence to show us how science was conducted in field and foyer, with magnifying glass and sketchbook, in domestic circles and in endless exchanges of letters and specimens. The book is packed with examples of the exquisitely detailed observations at which the naturalists excelled, both in word and image. But Terrall also illuminates the grander themes of Enlightenment science, provocatively blurring the boundaries between observation and experiment, home and academy, natural philosophy and natural history., "Terrall does an excellent job in articulating and demonstrating different ways of doing natural history in the early to mid- eighteenth century. She also captures the thrill of doing natural history, of catching nature in the act." , A meticulously researched and beautifully written account of the observational and experimental practice of natural history during the first half of the eighteenth century in France. . . . just as Réaumur gave his readers the means to see nature differently, Terrall transforms our picture of natural history with this superb and thoroughly absorbing book., In this insightful study of the French naturalist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur and his circle, Terrall restores natural history to its proper place in the history of early eighteenth-century science. For Réaumur and his collaborators, natural history was not opposed to physics; rather, both were inspired by the same problem-solving spirit. Terrall offers an exemplary reconstruction of the techniques that naturalists devised to carefully observe insects, polyps, chickens, and other forms of animal life, and shows us how those observations, in turn, helped address big questions about generation, instinct, and the nature of life., In this wonderful book, Terrall captures the skill, invention, and obsessive passion of the eighteenth-century naturalists, uncovering their world with the same attention that they used in exploring the unexpected corners of nature. The result is a new picture of the boundaries of knowledge in the Enlightenment and a fresh appreciation of the challenges of close observation in science.
Table of Content
1. The Terrain of Natural History 2. "Catching Nature in the Act" 3. Seeing Again and Again: Illustration and Observation in Domestic Surroundings 4. Recruiting Observers and Training "Philosophical Eyes" 5. Natural Prodigies: Asexual Reproduction and Regeneration 6. A Spectacle Pleasing to the Mind: Natural History on Display 7. Chickens, Eggs, and the Perennial Question of the Generation of Animals Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Europe / France, Natural History, General, Environmentalists & Naturalists, History
Lccn
2013-016604
Dewey Decimal
508
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science, History
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