 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 σελίδες
...depended upon his knowing the greatest number of species, and that the study of natural history consisted in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth. Unquestionably, by storing the memory with specific names and technical distinctions, " a good gossiping... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 σελίδες
...depended upon his knowing the greatest number of species, and that the study of natural history consisted in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth. Unquestionably, by storing the memory with specific names and technical distinctions, " a good gossiping... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 σελίδες
...those who went before him. [...] The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition...various productions of the earth. These are divided into the three grand kingdoms of nature, whose boundaries meet together in the Zoophytes [plant-like animals).... | |
 | Bruce Baum - 2008 - 353 σελίδες
...history," he said in his major work Systema Naturae (1735), "is simple, beautiful, and instructive in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth."32 Linnaeus built upon the Christian idea of the Great Chain of Being to claim the natural world... | |
 | Paul Hawken - 2007 - 364 σελίδες
...request. He stated his goals plainly: "The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of earth."3 In the eighteenth century, English scientists were inundated with "productions" being carried... | |
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The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth. 
