Naturalists in the field : : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / / edited by Arthur MacGregor.

• TeilnehmendeR: MacGregor, Arthur, 1941-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Emergence of Natural History 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,039 pages).

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 facto...