To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  History & Other Humanities  History of Science & Nature

English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray A Study of the Making of the Modern World

By: Charles E Raven(Author)
379 pages, no illustrations
English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray
Click to have a closer look
  • English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray ISBN: 9781108016346 Paperback Oct 2010 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £33.99
    #185596
Price: £33.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

C. E. Raven (1885-1964) was an academic theologian elected Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge in 1932, who developed an interest in natural history and the history of scientific thought. First published in 1947, English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray demonstrates how changing attitudes to the natural world reflected and influenced the transformations in scientific thought between the medieval period and the eighteenth century.

Raven's focus on the field of 'natural history' reveals how the scientific ideas behind modern biological studies developed from the richly illustrated and often fantastical bestiaries of the medieval world. The subjects of this volume are grouped chronologically into Pioneers, Explorers and Popularisers, with biographical details woven together with discussions of their academic work. English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray provided a wealth of new information concerning the founders of natural history and remains a valuable contribution to this subject.

Contents

Preface

A. The Prelude
1. Nature and medieval science
2. Nature and medieval art

B. The Pioneers
3. The men of the Renaissance
4. William Turner: his training
5. William Turner in exile
6. William Turner in maturity
7. William Turner, scientist
8. John Caius and the Rariorum Animalium
9. Thomas Penny the botanist
10. Thomas Mouffet and the Theatrum Insectorum

C. The Popularisers
11. Harrison, Batman and Lyte
12. John Gerard
13. Edward Topsell

D. The Explorers
14. The dawn of the 'New Philosophy'
15. John Parkinson
16. Thomas Johnson and his friends
17. William How and Christopher Merret

E. Epilogue
18. The coming of modern man: Religio Medici

Indexes

Customer Reviews

By: Charles E Raven(Author)
379 pages, no illustrations
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides