The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 309 էջ In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh and in particular the teaching of one of Scotland's most influential Enlightenment naturalists, Dr John Walker. |
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Introduction 1295 | 15 |
Who Was John Walker? The Life of a Notable Naturalist | 21 |
Analysis and the Nomenclature of Matter | 53 |
Travel Classification and Patronage | 83 |
Arranging the Fabric of the Globe | 119 |
The Chemical Foundations of Geology | 155 |
Conclusion | 189 |
Appendices | 205 |
The University of Edinburgh Natural History Course | 229 |
Bibliography | 251 |
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