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The first eoliths were collected in Kent by Benjamin Harrison, an English amateur naturalist and archaeologist, in 1885 (though the name "eolith" was not coined until 1892, by J. Allen Browne). Harrison's discoveries were published by Sir Joseph Prestwich in 1891, and eoliths were generally accepted to have been crudely made tools, dating from ...
Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
The Colours of Animals is a zoology book written in 1890 by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943). It was the first substantial textbook to argue the case for Darwinian selection applying to all aspects of animal coloration. The book also pioneered the concept of frequency-dependent selection and introduced the term "aposematism".
The Animal Book; The Bee Book; The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans BBC; The Dinosaur Book; The Facts Visually Explained, How Science Works; The Facts Simply Explained, What is Really Happening to Our Planet; The Illustrated Encyclopedia, of Animal Life Story; The Essential Visual Guide, Snake; The Elements Book; The Planets; The ...
Hunting dogs, Book 1. The Historia animalium was Gessner's magnum opus, and was the most widely read of all the Renaissance natural histories.The generously illustrated work was so popular that Gessner's abridgement, Thierbuch ("Animal Book"), was published in Zurich in 1563, and in England Edward Topsell translated and condensed it as a Historie of foure-footed beastes (London: William ...
Edward Step FLS (11 November 1855 – 1931) was the author of many popular and specialist books on various aspects of nature. [1] His many works on botany, zoology and mycology were published between 1894 and (posthumously) 1941.
Flower illustration, ca 1782. Brown was an associate of the great English naturalists Thomas Pennant and Joseph Banks. Though primarily an illustrator, he wrote the scientific descriptions of some species, such as the brightly marked North American Arctiid moth Haploa clymene. [1] Brown's illustrations included birds, botanical subjects and ...
Each issue of Zoobooks covers a different animal or group of animals with pictures, educational diagrams, facts, and games. Zoobooks also has available online content to further explore the text. The Zoobooks brand had different content subscriptions depending on age, with Zoobooks being for children 8+, Zoodinos for ages 5+, Zootles for ages 4 ...