The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)

The Historian | March 22, 2008| | Copyright

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. By Brian W. Ogilvie. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 385. $45.00.)

The author of this book has written a beautifully crafted monograph on Renaissance natural history. This is a learned, scholarly, and analytical work that goes well beyond surveys in the history of science or Renaissance history, yet at the same time is eminently readable and at times rather entertaining, no mean feat when considering the subject matter. Where else can one learn of the early natural history ...

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