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Alexander Wilson : enlightened naturalist / edited by Edward H. Burtt Jr.
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English
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Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
xxx, 170 pages, AF pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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QL31.W7 A79 2016
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Birds
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United States
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History
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Wilson, Alexander 1766-1813
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Wilson, Alexander 1766-1813
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American ornithology
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Burtt, Edward H., Jr., 1948-
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Series
Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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Aperçus: histories, texts, cultures
Summary note
This book examines the power of cross-disciplinary thinking. Alexander Wilson was a published poet, an accomplished musician, a skilled artist and an insightful observer. All these skills came together in his truly revolutionary text, American Ornithology, which is the founding document of American ornithology. The elegance of its writing, the novelty of its art, and the excellence of its science make Wilson's Ornithology worth consulting even today, two centuries after its publication.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1 Alexander Wilson: Scots Poet / Gerard Carruthers
ch. 2 Verses from America / Irving N. Rothman
ch. 3 The Art of Illustrating Nature / William E. Davis Jr.
ch. 4 American Ornithology: Exemplar of Scientific Creativity / Edward H. Burtt Jr.
ch. 5 Bird Species: Then and Now / Rick Wright.
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ISBN
9781611487947 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
1611487943 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
9781611487961 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
161148796X ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016035567
OCLC
957135547
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