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With her drawings broke the scientific molds of the time. In 1705 she published her masterpiece Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, which greatly impressed who drew on Merian's observations for some of his Systema Naturae texts.

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2023-02-14

Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born He co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8-year journey through Southeast Asia, a journey of over 14,000 miles, during which he collected over 125,000 specimens.

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2023-01-08

Alcide d' Orbigny, French paleontologist who founded the science of was born in 1802 https://t.co/XgU4ZnXaGY

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2022-09-06

French naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny, who founded the science of died in 1857 https://t.co/XgU4ZnFzio

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2022-06-30

presented “The Italian who Changed the World: and the Construction of the First of the Earth” at the conference "The Foreignness of Universal Historiography"
June 13-15, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo

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2022-06-16

In Enlightened France, women acted as cultural mediators of physiocratic political economy, read more in Notes and Records https://t.co/3l58veV4zF

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2022-06-10

Another exciting publication! 📖

In her latest book, alumna Postdoctoral Fellow Elena Serrano explores and the circulation of during the Spanish Enlightenment. 💭

🔗https://t.co/pAKSpO69ZI

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2022-06-09

An appetite for experiment! Explore the tastes of the Royal Society, just published in Notes and Records https://t.co/4noiPzVq0r

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2022-05-05

The visualization of animals in order to categorize their position in the great chain of being was one of the primary interests of natural history, read more in Notes and Records https://t.co/UzWiVmRsl8

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2022-04-07

The botanist José Celestino Mutis was the promoter of one of the great Spanish scientific trips: the Royal Scientific Expedition of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1783-1816), in which some 2,700 species were collected and more than 7,100 drawings were made

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2022-03-28

Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born He co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8 year journey through Southeast Asia, a journey of over 14,000 miles, during which time he collected over 125,000 specimens.

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2022-01-08

How applied entomology saved California's lucrative orange industry in the late 1800s, with imported Australian ladybugs combatting the cottony cushion scale: https://t.co/HmesOd9OML

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2022-01-06

Edinburgh journal of natural history and the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier from 1835-1840 at - volume one (https://t.co/4GYLFBtegN) and volume two (https://t.co/8wUg7bPAtQ).

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2022-01-02

And here is an image of John Dee's crystal, which is now housed . Dee claimed that this crystal was given to him by the angel Uriel in November 1582. He also claimed he used it to see or apparitions

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2021-11-19

1832, Darwin recovered his first fossil at Punta Alta (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He collected a considerable number of fossil mammals from South America. Those discoveries sparked the theory of
https://t.co/0D7CyftZIp

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2021-09-23

in 1808 the Spanish botanist José Celestino Mutis died in Bogotá. He led the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada that lasted for thirty-four years and collected more than 20,000 plants and 5000 drawings of plants that he sent to Spain

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2021-09-12

To confirm this "discovery" Crookes conducted a series of experiments with the Daniel Dunglas Home, aka "The Wizard of the North. This diagrams depicts the famous accordion experiment, where the instrument seemingly played via some unseen force. 2/2

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2021-08-19

Image-A-Day📚🐘
For from Bass Business, Bizzell Bible, & Nichols Pictorial History of the American Circus (1957), Biblia sacra (1710), History of Four-footed Beasts (1658) and Babar the King (1935)

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2021-08-13

En la expedición geodésica para medir un arco de meridiano en el Ecuador (1735-1746), la observación del paisaje en las tierras ecuatorianas permitió a Jorge Juan y Antonio de Ulloa ofrecer un primer bosquejo de lo que más tarde se llamarían pisos de vegetación.

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2021-08-10

Day 22 of

Federico Marcon, The knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in early modern Japan, University of Chicago Press, 2015

The book: https://t.co/oayhyOMu5p

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