Chapter ID: CBB000082019

Codes of passion: Natural history specimens as a polite language in late 18th-century France (1999)

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Description Focuses on the bird collections of Réaumur and Buffon.


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Book Author missing; (1999) Wissenschaft als kulturelle Praxis, 1750-1900. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Guerrini, Anita
Liebman, Elizabeth Amy
Terrall, Mary
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Roman, Hanna
Caponi, Gustavo
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publishers
University of Chicago
Cornell University Press
H. Champion
Honoré Champion
Johns Hopkins University
Liverpool University Press
Concepts
Natural history
Biology
Zoology
Primary literature (historical sources)
Visual representation; visual communication
Evolution
People
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Belon, Pierre
Bonnet, Charles
Chirac, Pierre
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
19th century
Enlightenment
Places
France
Scotland
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Académie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris
Jardin du roi (France)
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