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Cabrera wrote about 27 books. He was very active in disseminating ideas of zoology to the non-specialist general public. Among these works can be mentioned Catálogo de los mamíferos de América del Sur (Catalogue of South American Mammals), Zoología pintoresca (Picturesque Zoology), Historia de Leones (Story of Lions) and Los mamíferos extinguidos (Extinct Mammals), all in language ...
Wilkins, a 17th-century philosopher, had proposed a universal language based on a classification system that would encode a description of the thing a word describes into the word itself—for example, Zi identifies the genus beasts; Zit denotes the "difference" rapacious beasts of the dog kind; and finally Zitα specifies dog.
20th-century Spanish zoologists (9 P) E. Spanish entomologists (1 C, 14 P) I. Spanish ichthyologists (2 P) O. Spanish ornithologists (5 P) Pages in category "Spanish ...
Francisco Ayala (1934–2023), Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher; William Orville Ayres (1817–1887), American physician and ichthyologist with publications in popular sources; Félix de Azara (1746–1811), Spanish naturalist [19] who described more than 350 South American birds
The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen ...
Pages in category "20th-century Spanish zoologists" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Spanish short story writers" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.