Discovering Birds
Subtitle: The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760-1850
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 5, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801855375
Subjects: Birds (ornithology); History of science; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Ornithology; Nature; Science/Mathematics; Birds & Birdwatching - General; Science / History; History
First sentence: The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a time of profound change in Europe.