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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.