More than any other writer, Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals' behaviour in a u...
More than any other writer, Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals' behaviour in a unique manner. This collection of his letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home - are a beautifully written, detailed evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England.
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作为英国牧师、博物学家吉尔伯特·怀特(Gilbert White)的博物观察书信集,《塞耳彭自然史》(The Natural History of Selborne)写作于18世纪下半叶,正值欧洲启蒙运动繁荣时期,此时,由哥白尼、伽利略、牛顿等人贡献的知识所影响下的17世纪科学革命,奠基了现代科学体系,...
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Somehow it makes me happy to discover a person or some people like him.
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