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189 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780875801667
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 07 January 1992
Description
Examines texts from 18th-century America, which have been considered belles-lettres, and finds in them scientific methods and systematic observations of a now extinct discipline, natural history. Shows how descriptions of plant, animal, and human ...
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189 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780875801667
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 07 January 1992
Description
Examines texts from 18th-century America, which have been considered belles-lettres, and finds in them scientific methods and systematic observations of a now extinct discipline, natural history. Shows how descriptions of plant, animal, and human ...