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Author : Mark Catesby
Release : 1974
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands by : Mark Catesby
Download or read book The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands written by Mark Catesby. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their descriptions in English and French.
Author : Mark Catesby
Release : 1974
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands by : Mark Catesby
Download or read book The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands written by Mark Catesby. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their descriptions in English and French.
Author : Mark Catesby
Release : 1771
Genre : Natural History
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Book Synopsis The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands by : Mark Catesby
Download or read book The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands written by Mark Catesby. This book was released on 1771. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Charles Nelson
Release : 2015-03-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 264/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Curious Mister Catesby by : E. Charles Nelson
Download or read book The Curious Mister Catesby written by E. Charles Nelson. This book was released on 2015-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored his return to North America. There Catesby cataloged the flora and fauna of the Carolinas and the Bahamas by gathering seeds and specimens, compiling notes, and making watercolor sketches. Going home to England after five years, he began the twenty-year task of writing, etching, and publishing his monumental The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby was a man of exceptional courage and determination combined with insatiable curiosity and multiple talents. Nevertheless no portrait of him is known. The international contributors to this volume review Catesby’s biography alongside the historical and scientific significance of his work. Ultimately, this lavishly illustrated volume advances knowledge of Catesby’s explorations, collections, artwork, and publications in order to reassess his importance within the pantheon of early naturalists.
Author : Henrietta McBurney
Release : 2021-06-22
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 192/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Illuminating Natural History by : Henrietta McBurney
Download or read book Illuminating Natural History written by Henrietta McBurney. This book was released on 2021-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and work of the 18th-century English artist, explorer, naturalist, and author Mark Catesby (1683-1749). During Catesby's lifetime, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. He worked against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature. Catesby spent two prolonged periods in the New World--in Virginia (1712-19) and South Carolina and the Bahamas (1722-26)--which he documented in Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first large-format, color-plate book on the natural history of North America. Interweaving elements of art history, history of science, natural history illustration, painting materials, book history, paper studies, garden history, and colonial history, this volume brings together a wealth of unpublished images as well as previously unpublished letters by Catesby, with contemporary accounts of his collecting and encounters in the wild, and details of the materials and techniques of packing and transporting plants and animals across the Atlantic.
