Green laurels : the lives and achievements of the great naturalists /
Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964.
Green laurels : the lives and achievements of the great naturalists / Donald Culross Peattie. - New York : Literary Guild, c1936. - xxiii, 368 p., [30] p. of plates : ill., chart, maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-358) and index.
Schoolmen and herbalists -- The lens turned on life -- Science at court : Buffon and Réaumur -- The green world opens -- The life work of Linnaeus -- Glories and follies of the Linnean age -- A chevalier in science : Lamarck -- Anatomist against dreamer : Cuvier and Lamarck -- Wilderness plantsmen : Bartram and Michaux -- Wilderness birdsmen : Wilson and Audubon -- Frontier utopians : Say, Rafinesque, and others -- Rose spectacles : Goethe and the romanticists -- Ultimate isles : Darwin and Wallace -- Darwinism and the man behind it -- Fabre and the epic commplace.
Naturalists.
Biography.
Biology--Biography.
Botany--Biography.
Science--Biography.
Green laurels : the lives and achievements of the great naturalists / Donald Culross Peattie. - New York : Literary Guild, c1936. - xxiii, 368 p., [30] p. of plates : ill., chart, maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-358) and index.
Schoolmen and herbalists -- The lens turned on life -- Science at court : Buffon and Réaumur -- The green world opens -- The life work of Linnaeus -- Glories and follies of the Linnean age -- A chevalier in science : Lamarck -- Anatomist against dreamer : Cuvier and Lamarck -- Wilderness plantsmen : Bartram and Michaux -- Wilderness birdsmen : Wilson and Audubon -- Frontier utopians : Say, Rafinesque, and others -- Rose spectacles : Goethe and the romanticists -- Ultimate isles : Darwin and Wallace -- Darwinism and the man behind it -- Fabre and the epic commplace.
Naturalists.
Biography.
Biology--Biography.
Botany--Biography.
Science--Biography.