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Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World
Kingdom of Ants Jos Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World
Author: Edward O. Wilson, José M. Gómez Durán
One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrie...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801897856
ISBN-10: 0801897858
Publication Date: 9/28/2010
Pages: 120
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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