Excerpt from The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated The first requisite for the attainment of the end proposed was obviously an extensive circulation; and this could only be secured by the use of the common forms of our language, in place of' those technical expressions which render most scientific works unintelligible to the general reader. Such expressions the Editor has studiously endeavoured to avoid; and in the few instances in which he has been compelled, for the sake of perspicuity, to have ...
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Excerpt from The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated The first requisite for the attainment of the end proposed was obviously an extensive circulation; and this could only be secured by the use of the common forms of our language, in place of' those technical expressions which render most scientific works unintelligible to the general reader. Such expressions the Editor has studiously endeavoured to avoid; and in the few instances in which he has been compelled, for the sake of perspicuity, to have recourse to them, he has either added an explanation of their meaning, or so modelled the context as to render explanation unnecessary to any person of even moderate education. By thus addressing his language to the world at large, instead of' confining it by the use of' technicalities to the limited circle of professed zoologists, he trusts that he has to a certain extent enlarged the boundaries of the science without detracting from its real importance; for it has been his endeavour throughout the work to employ English terms as definite in their meaning and as precise in their limitation as those which are usually considered exclusively zoological. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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