Sightseers and Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History

by Stephen R. Bown

Book Overview

Sightseers and Scholars provides portraits of the explorers and naturalists who sought to explore the New World in the pre-Darwinian Age. The late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and America saw the dawn of a golden age of science in which society energetically sought to quantify, categorize, and rationally explain the world. The accurate cataloguing of nature was one of the goals of the age, and most plants and animals known today were collected,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552634868
• ISBN13: 9781552634868
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.