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 figurethe definitive authority on ...
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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 figurethe definitive authority on natural history in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (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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