Natural History in Depth
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TL;DR
These words from Ralph Waldo Emerson's address on nature appeared at the head of David Allen's pioneering book of 1976, The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History, suggesting that the past development of natural history the sciences of botany, stratigraphy, mineralogy and zoology could only be understood in relation to broad trends in social history.
Abstract
These words from Ralph Waldo Emerson's address on nature appeared at the head of David Allen's pioneering book of 1976, The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History. The message that Allen's survey so effectively conveyed was that the past development of natural history the sciences of botany, stratigraphy, mineralogy and zoology could only be understood in relation to broad trends in social history. The rise of the