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Catching nature in the act: Réaumur and the practice of natural history in the eighteenth century
Catching nature in the act: Réaumur and the practice of natural history in the eighteenth century
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Terrall, Mary
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Setting the stage
"Catching nature in the act"
Seeing again and again : illustration and observation in domestic settings
Recruiting observers and training "philosophical eyes"
Natural prodigies : asexual reproduction and regeneration
A spectacle pleasing to the mind : natural history on display
Chickens, eggs, and the perennial question of animal generation.
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History
Natural history
Natural history -- History -- 18th century
Naturalists
Naturalists -- History -- 18th century
Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de
Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757
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9780226088600
9780226088747
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