TY - BOOK ID - 32839230 TI - Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century PY - 2018 SN - 9789004323834 900432383X 9004323848 9789004323841 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - biologists KW - Biologist KW - Natural history KW - Naturalists KW - History. KW - 42.01 history of biology. KW - Biologie. KW - Botanisieren. KW - Feldforschung. KW - Forschungsreise. KW - Natural history. KW - Naturalists. KW - Präparation. KW - Tiere. KW - Historians, Natural KW - Natural historians KW - Scientists UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32839230 AB - Interposed between the natural world in all its diversity and the edited form in which we encounter it in literature, imagery and the museum, lie the multiple practices of the naturalists in selecting, recording and preserving the specimens from which our world view is to be reconstituted. The factors that weigh at every stage are here dissected, analysed and set within a historical narrative that spans more than five centuries. During that era, every aspect evolved and changed, as engagement with nature moved from a speculative pursuit heavily influenced by classical scholarship to a systematic science, drawing on advanced theory and technology. Far from being neutrally objective, the process of representing nature is shown as fraught with constraint and compromise. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough Contributors are: Marie Addyman, Peter Barnard, Paul D. Brinkman, Ian Convery, Peter Davis, Felix Driver, Florike Egmond, Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Geoff Hancock, Stephen Harris, Hanna Hodacs, Stuart Houston, Dominik Huenniger, Rob Huxley, Charlie Jarvis, Malgosia Nowak-Kemp, Shepard Krech III, Mark Lawley, Arthur Lucas, Marco Masseti, Geoff Moore, Pat Morris, Charles Nelson, Robert Peck, Helen Scales, Han F. Vermeulen, and Glyn Williams. ER -