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NATURAL SCIENCE
OBSERVERS
Robert D. Morritt
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 Within these pages are accounts of
Natural Science Observers’ fossil hunters, botanists, naturalists,
ornithologists and zoologists. Also an overview of the lives and works of
Pliny the Elder,( author and naturalist), whose ‘Naturalis Historia’ is one of the largest works to survive
from the Roman Empire ,still consulted today. Focus on Konrad von Megenberg
who studied botany, animals and astrological astronomy, Ulisse Aldrovandi the
Italian botanist (with images from his work, ’Ornithologia) engravings from ‘Historia animalium’ the works of
Konrad von Gesner, celebrated Swiss naturalist. John Ray,who was the first to
discover the age of a tree from counting its rings. Francis Willughby (sic)
who developed a classification of plants and animals. Agricola, Johann Jakob
Scheuchzer of the nature of fossils. Georges Cuvier and much more.
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