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ISBN: 1283078503 9786613078506 0226902080 9780226902081 9781283078504 6613078506 0226902145 9780226902142 0226902145 9780226902142 0226902153 9780226902159 Year: 1991 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
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Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores the conflicting forces that shaped systematics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Debates over the philosophical foundations of classification, details of taxonomic research, the young institution's financial struggles, and the personalities of the men most deeply involved are all brought to life. In 1859, Louis Agassiz established the Museum of Comparative Zoology to house research on the ideal types that he believed were embodied in all living forms. Agassiz's vision arose from his insistence that the order inherent in the diversity of life reflected divine creation, not organic evolution. But the mortar of the new museum had scarcely dried when Darwin's Origin was published. By Louis Agassiz's death in 1873, even his former students, including his son Alexander, had defected to the evolutionist camp. Alexander, a self-made millionaire, succeeded his father as director and introduced a significantly different agenda for the museum. To trace Louis and Alexander's arguments and the style of science they established at the museum, Winsor uses many fascinating examples that even zoologists may find unfamiliar. The locus of all this activity, the museum building itself, tells its own story through a wonderful series of archival photographs.
Animals --- Natural history --- Naturalists --- History. --- Classification --- Agassiz, Louis, --- Agassiz, Alexander, --- Barbour, Thomas, --- Harvard University. --- zoology, harvard, museum, louis agassiz, science, academia, classification, taxonomy, biodiversity, creation, evolution, natural history, animals, biology, thomas barbour, echinoderms, crayfish, walter faxon, nonfiction, founding, funding, agenda, biography, father and son, scientific debate, research, scholars, insects, lamarck, specimens, display, exhibition.
ISBN: 0226902153 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *18 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press
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Animals --- Natural history --- Naturalists --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- History --- Classification&delete& --- Agassiz, Alexander, --- Agassiz, Louis, --- Barbour, Thomas, --- Barbour, T. --- Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolphe, --- Agassiz, Ludwig Johann Rudolf, --- Agassis, L. --- Agassiz, L. --- Agassiz, Luiz João Rodolfo, --- Agassiz, Luis, --- Agassiz, --- Ag., A. --- A. Ag. --- Harvard University. --- Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College --- Agassiz Museum --- MCZ --- M.C.Z. --- Museum of Comparative Zoology (1859-1877) --- History. --- Classification --- Evolution --- Philosophy --- Harvard University.Museum of Comparative Zoology --- Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology - History. --- Evolution--Philosophy --- Natural history - Classification --- Museum of Comparative Zoology (1877- )
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