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Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

By Anna Marie Roos

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2011
ISBN
9004207031, 9789004207035
ISSN
1872-0684
LCC
QH31.L6913 R66 2011
Google Books ID
NfsWtwAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL25077793M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14398354 bytes)
Series
History of Science and Medicine Library / Medieval and Early Modern Science volume 22 / 16
Pages
499\499
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-14 18:00:00
Библиотека;Жизнь выдающихся людей;Ученыедеятели наукиизобретатели

Description

This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum. Just as Lister was the first to make a systematic study of spiders and their webs, this biography is the first to analyze the significant webs of knowledge, patronage, and familial and gender relationships that governed his life as a scientist and physician.

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